This one who ignores the dismissal decision, meets at CBL headquarters in Tripoli
The Speaker of theHouse of Representatives (HoR), AqilaSaleh, saidthatwhatthePresidential Council decidedregardingreplacingtheGovernor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) wasunacceptable, addingduringtheHoR’ssessionthatthePresidentialCouncil’stermhadexpired, and Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir “remainstheGovernor of the Central Bank basedontherecentdecision of theHoR.”
Salehsaidthatthepowers of thePresidential Council wereexclusivelydefined, and theformation of sovereign positions wasmadeuponanagreementbetweentheHoR and the High Council of State.
SalehindicatedthatthePresidentialCouncil’sstepregardingreplacing Al-Kabircould be a reasonforfreezingLibyanassets and thecollapse of the local currency. He saidthattheHoRdecided in theprevioussession to endtheterm of office fortheexecutiveauthority, addingthattheHoRconsideredit a failure and could be replaced.
The Speaker of theHoRalsopointed to theneedforanexecutiveauthoritythatwouldunifythe country and holdelections, expressingtheHoR’sreadiness to initiate dialogue withallparties.
In themeantime, the Central Bank of LibyaannouncedMondaythat Al-Kabirheldanexpanded meeting with a number of thebank’sdepartment managers at itsheadquarters in Tripoli, hoursafterthePresidential Council issued a decision to replacehim.
The Central Bank saidthat Al-Kabirfollowed up onthereoperation of systems and theprogress of workwiththedepartment managers aftertherelease of theDirector of theInformationTechnologyDepartment, MusabEmsallemonSunday.
ThePresidential Council unanimouslyannouncedonSundayitsdecision to replace Al-Kabir and form a new board of directors. Thecouncilsaid in itsstatementthatthedecisioncamewithintheframework of assumingnationalresponsibility to preserve thecountry’sresources and preventthemfrombeingexposed to anyharm.
