By Libya Herald reporter.
Tripoli, 27 January 2017:
The labour minister in the Presidency Council’s Government of National Accord (GNA), Ali Galma has resigned.
Announcing the move in a phone conversation with 218 TV satellite channel during its midday news programme, he said that he was doing so because the PC was ineffective and in protest at the control of Tripoli by militias.
“Tripoli is now hostage to the hands of uncontrolled and illegal armed militias,” he said, adding that they controlled the PC as well. For its part, he claimed, it had already “lost the meaning of national accord, having become a client for a certain parties”.
Galma did not state who those parties were.
“In many sectors of the state, the situation has reached to unacceptable and dangerous levels,” he further added. In the circumstances, he felt morally obliged to resign, he said.
A member of the Tebu community and from Qatrun, Qalma had previously served in the Transitional National Council. He is the second top resignation from southern Libya this month. On 2 January, Presidency Council member Musa Koni, a Tuareg from the south resigned also saying that the PC had failed to deliver.
Reports that Qalma had declared his support for the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Khalifa Hafter are not true although he did congratulate it for crushing militants in Benghazi.
