The House of Representatives (HoR) announced on Friday that it decided to suspend the decision issued in 2018 to appoint Mohammed Al-Shukri as Governor of the Central Bank of Libya to replace Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir.
The HoR said in a statement that it had suspended the decision No. (3) of 2018, by virtue of which Al-Shukri was appointed, due to the expiry of his assignment period and his failure to assume his duties from the date of issuance of the decision of his appointment.
The statement indicated that the Presidency of the HoR's decision No. (25) of 2023, which stipulated the delegation of powers, and included the assignment of Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir as Governor of the Central Bank of Libya with Marie Raheel as Deputy Governor, would continue to be implemented.
In January 2018, Al-Shukri took the legal oath before 50 members of the HoR during the session held in Tobruk after his election to this position, and then pledged to work within the same framework of unity in which the National Oil Corporation operated.
It is noteworthy that since the beginning of the political crisis in Libya in 2014, the HoR dismissed the current governor of the Central Bank, Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir, three times and appointed Ali Al-Habri twice in his place and Al-Shukri once in 2018.
However, the HoR's decisions in this regard did not go beyond being ink on paper. Observers believe that the honeymoon that characterizes Al-Kabir's relationship with Aqila Saleh (HoR Speaker) this period and for the first time in more than a decade came due to the state of hostility that unites the two men together against the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.
