Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych - 17 December 2015: Agreement in Libya on UN-sponsored peace deal

Libyan politicians have signed a UN-sponsored peace deal in Skhirat, Morocco, that is supposed to unify the country’s two rival governments into a single Government of National Accord (GNA). Around 80 of 188 lawmakers from Libya’s internationally recognised House of Representatives (HoR) based in Tobruk and 50 of 136 members of the Islamist Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC) signed the agreement. The deal is however seen as illegitimate by certain groups in the government due to it being forced on Libya by external powers and due to the speakers of the two parliaments being absent from the voting. Under the agreement, a nine-member Presidency Council and a seventeen-member interim Government of National Accord are to be formed, with a view to holding new elections within two years.