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Conservative Middle East Council INSIDE LIBYA: CHAOS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 4. The House of Representatives is a nucleus for the development of a Libyan Parliamentary system, and has a geographical reach across Libya. The House of Representatives (HoR) – now sitting in Tobruk after its flight from Tripoli in the summer of 2014 - is composed of 188 Members of whom around 130-150 reportedly still attend meetings. Significantly, 32 Members are women, and the HoR apparently has a broad reach across the whole of Libya. On the day the delegation visited 114 Members were reported to be sitting. Members of the HoR are a varied collection of political activists; they do not necessarily all support Haftar and the LNA. Most of the Members that the delegation met expressed gratitude that the LNA had provided the security to allow the HoR to continue sitting in Tobruk. The delegation met two female MPs, one of whom, as a representative for the Tebu tribe in Murzuq, Southern Libya, voiced her complete support for the LNA. Murzuq is roughly 1,500 km from Tobruk. Members of the HoR expressed dismay that their assembly was no longer supported by the international community. A Member representing a constituency in Libya’s Western Mountains said: We are baffled by the position of Britain…and the support given to the GNA…which is reliant on the Islamist militias…it is not democratic. The HoR, having been elected in 2014, is a flawed and somewhat disorganised body. It does, however, offer a starting point for Libya’s democratic development if the country can achieve a measure of political stability in the near future. 6
Conservative Middle East Council INSIDE LIBYA: CHAOS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN RECOMMENDATIONS 1. The UK should urgently engage with Haftar, the LNA and the HoR and support their efforts to defeat the Islamist militias in Western Libya. A united, democratic Libya can only progress if the country is pacified. The LNA is the only means of achieving this. 2. The UK should support the LNA to secure Libya’s borders bring an end to the illegal trafficking of people from Libya’s sea ports. This is urgent on both humanitarian and security grounds. 3. The UK should reconsider its view of the GNA and acknowledge its limited capacity to deliver any kind of governance or security for Libya. “I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.” SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 7
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