Constituent Assembly reaffirms its competence alone to assume tasks of drafting permanent constitution for the country.

Tripoli, 27 January, 2022 (Lana) - The Constituent Assembly for the Drafting of the Constitution reaffirmed that it has the original jurisdiction alone to assume the task of drafting the permanent constitution for the country, in accordance with the provisions of the Interim Constitutional Declaration and its amendments and the provisions of the Libyan judiciary.

 In a statement issued in response to the call of the Speaker of Parliament, Aguila Saleh, to form a committee to draft the constitution of 30 intellectuals, writers, thinkers and academics specialized in constitutional law, representing the three regions, the commission rejected any attempts to infringe on the competencies of the elected constituent assembly, and to create parallel bodies that would undertake the tasks entrusted to it. To draft a permanent constitution for the country.

The commission called on all national and international bodies not to deal with any proposals that might wreck the entire constitutional process, cause an increase in division and instability in the country, and prolong and complicate the Libyan crisis.

In its statement signed by 28 members, the commission stated that it was established according to a constitutional text in accordance with the provisions of the Constitutional Declaration and its amendments, which provided for the election of a constituent body by free and direct suffrage from non-members of the General National Congress to draft a permanent constitution for the country called the Constituent Assembly for the Drafting of the Constitution. =Lana=