Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, a new hope for Turkey’s position in Libya

It took just over five months of negotiations for the UN to bring together a forum of 73 Libyans from all three regions of the country. The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LDPF), meeting in the city of Geneva, elected a new transitional government for their country, but not before two failed votes. The new cabinet is headed by Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah, a businessman from the Misrata region who has a very good relationship with Turkey, not least because he owns a satellite broadcasting channel located there, in Salam. 

The candidate who won the third round of voting was Mohammad Younes Menfi, who won with 39 votes compared to 34 for the list led by Aguila Salé. Menfi will be the chairman of the Presidency Council, while Abdullah Hussein al-Lafi, Mossa al-Koni and the new prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, complete the council. 

Libya plans to make a major turnaround in its political situation, and to this end this government has been created, which will have the task of coexisting with the Government of National Accord, whose prime minister is Fayez al-Sarraj - it should be recalled that he was proposed in 2015 by the then UN special envoy, the Spaniard Bernardino León - leads a government that had, as this new one will have, the objective of achieving real national unity. A task that is far from simple, and for which the new government will be formed within 21 days of the vote in the Swiss city.