Charges against the UN mission and objections to the House of Representatives session
Libya – Sadiq Al-Gharyani, the General National Congress mufti whom the House of Representatives removed from office, cast the 4+4 outcomes as an extension of what he called the project of US diplomat Boulos to enable Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar to rule Libya under American and international sponsorship. He cited a remark he attributed to Boulos about the two projects converging, saying some people had believed the track was a United Nations product.
Challenge to parliament’s legitimacy and to Turkey-brokered understandings
Speaking on the programme “Islam and Life” on Al-Tanasuh channel, which Al-Marsad followed, Al-Gharyani said he regarded the House of Representatives as having lacked legitimacy for years, based on his reading of the political agreement that limited its term to a year and a half that could not be renewed, in his view, without a referendum that was never held. He accused House Speaker Aguila Saleh of walking back understandings he said had been reached days earlier under Turkish auspices, with the State Council president present, and that would have referred the 4+4 outcomes to the usual tracks through the 6+6 mechanism before both chambers adopted them.
Criticism of foreign intervention
Al-Gharyani also criticised what he described as the submission of officials in the east and west to American dictates, saying American meetings with politicians and leaders in Tripoli were constant. He linked that to a religious and political warning against aligning with outside parties.
Criticism of proposals on violence against women
He further criticised language he said appeared in a National Council for Women proposal on combating violence, and in a bill before the House of Representatives on violence against women, claiming the provisions interfered with the relationship between spouses.
Call to demonstrate outside government and ministries
Al-Gharyani called on citizens to demonstrate outside government and ministry headquarters in rejection of the 4+4 track, arguing that a gathering of about 30 people in a square was not enough to stop it. He also urged brigades in Tripoli and those he described as revolutionaries to support the protests and not rely on promises from political parties, warning, in his view, of a return to military rule and purges if the track’s outcomes were imposed.
