Benghazi, 5 September 2022 (Lana) Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ageela Saleh, denounced banning of members of the House of Representatives from traveling from Tripoli to Benghazi, to attend the official session that was scheduled to be held on Monday in the city.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives considered, in a statement, this act as a disruption of the work of the House of Representatives and to prevent it from exercising its duties to ensure stability in the country by reaching the presidential and parliamentary elections as soon as possible and meet the requirements of citizens, and a dangerous precedent that threatens the unity of the country and a crime of restricting the freedom of citizens, abuse of power and obstruction of the work of the legislative authority.
According to the statement, Ageela called on the Attorney General to investigate this incident, issue a statement of the results of the investigation and bring the accused to trial. He also called on members of the House of Representatives to attend the sessions to be announced in order to take decisive decisions by the majority of those present in the interest of the nation and the general public and in appreciation of the conditions of the deputies whose circumstances did not enable them to attend the meeting as approved in a previous ones.
Source: Libyan News Agency