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| Libya Cabinet Wins Confidence Vote in Parliament |
| 2014-05-26 |
| [An Nahar] The proposed cabinet of Libyan premier Ahmed Miitig on Sunday won a vote of confidence in the General National Congress, or interim parliament, a politician said. "The vote of confidence was obtained by 83 votes out of 94 politicians present," MP Mohammed Laamari told Agence La Belle France Presse. Miitig's cabinet is due to replace that of Abdullah al-Thani, who resigned last month amid mounting lawlessness, and as a rogue general gains support for an assault against Islamist militias in the east of the country. The GNC elected Islamist-backed businessman Miitig, 42, prime minister in a chaotic vote in early May. The session came just days after gunnies stormed the GNC to interrupt an earlier ballot. He is Libya's fifth and youngest prime minister since longtime leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... was toppled and killed in a 2011 uprising. |
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