Aguila Saleh: Who is Libya’s house speaker?
Al JazeeraLibya’s influential speaker of parliament announced he will run for president, making him the latest candidate to join the race for the country’s highest office after years of civil war. Aguila Saleh, 77, who has led Libya’s House of Representatives since 2014, announced his candidacy in a video statement on Wednesday. In the past week, a son of the country’s longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi and powerful renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar also submitted their bids to run. Analysts saw Haftar’s defeat at the hands of Libya’s Government of National Unity in mid-2020 as an opportunity for Saleh to play a more prominent role and help mediate between east and western Libya. The critics said key provisions seem designed to let Saleh and his eastern ally Haftar run without risk of losing their positions if they failed to win.
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