The High State Council approved on Monday its shortened list of nominees for sovereign posts to be sent to the House of Representatives (HoR).
At its Tripoli session, it reduced to seven the number of nominees for leadership posts for five sovereign bodies that it had drawn up the previous week.
Members voted on seven names each for the heads of the:
- Audit Bureau (down from last week’s list of 26)
- High National Elections Commission (down from 19)
- Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (down from 20)
- Deputies of the National Anti-Corruption Authority (down from 17)
- Administrative Control Authority (down from 83)
The HSC will now refer these nominees to the HoR for consideration. The HoR has the option of selecting names from the HSC’s nominees or it may ignore them altogether and make its own nominations. It will then have to send them back to the HSC.
The December 2015 Skhirat Libyan Political Agreement (LPA)
It will be recalled that the December 2015 Skhirat Libyan Political Agreement (LPA,) which provides the current Libyan political roadmap, prescribes that the HSC and HoR must agree on the appointment of the above five sovereign positions. Since 2015, however, the HoR and HSC have failed to agree on appointments for these positions.
