Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) said its Speaker Aqila Saleh referred 35 members, who are meeting at the Tripoli-based HoR, to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and terminated their posts as MPs.
A letter from Saleh to the Interim Government's Public Prosecutor said the 35 members "are not attending sessions and defectors from the legitimate parliament as they formed a parallel HoR in Tripoli in violation of the constitutional declaration and the internal laws of the parliament itself.
This comes as HoR members from Tobruk and Tripoli are holding consultative meetings to amend the internal laws of the HoR via Zoom ahead of holding a full-quorum session, knowing that the attendees are now about 130 members.
Observers believe that Saleh's decision is meant to get in the way of Ghadames meetings of HoR members who are aiming at unification in full-quorum sessions to elect new Speaker.
They also think Saleh's decision wasn't completely logical as it didn't dismiss HoR members meeting in Tripoli and included some members who didn't join Tobruk or Tripoli's HoR meetings, in addition to the name of MP Omar Garmil who died of Coronavirus days ago in Morocco.
