July 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The High Council of State of Libya, the legislative authority of the Government recognized by the international community in Tripoli, has rejected this Sunday the appointments made by the legislative chamber of the rival administration in the east of the country to make its own Constitutional Court.
Last Monday, the Libyan House of Representatives, the legislative body in the hands of the authorities in the east of the country, voted on the appointment of the president and the members of the court, in a decision that the Tripoli Supreme Court dismissed as unconstitutional.
The matter has boiled over since July of last year, when the House of Representatives decided to unilaterally organize the future vote of this court of its own despite the categorical rejection of the High Council of State — which, in a unified political scenario, could be understood as the Libyan “senate” –.
Now, Al Masri has informed the president of the Chamber, Aguila Salé, of his surprise at the vote and has reminded the authorities in the east of the country that the decision of the Tripoli Supreme Court is final.
In the letter, collected by the pan-Arab chain Al Arabiya, Al Masri has asked Salé not to extend the division that reigns between the two administrations of the country to the Judiciary since right now two self-proclaimed judicial authorities are about to exist simultaneously as guarantors of the Constitution: the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court in Tripoli and this new Constitutional Court that the authorities in the east of the country have appointed.
