The continued difficulty around securing a quorum for an HoR vote for the unity government in Libya is outlined in an article from Reuters Africa. While the parliament did not come to a vote during the week of 18 April 2016, a majority of members supposedly affirmed their support for the GNA.
After the latest push to secure a vote collapsed amid recriminations on April , a group of pro-GNA lawmakers, who say they number just over 100, a majority, issued a statement backing the unity government late on Thursday.The West sees the Government of National Accord (GNA), formed under a deal agreed in December, as the best chance to end political turmoil since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 that led to a rise in factional fighting and Islamist militancy, and are urging the eastern parliament to agree.But politicians close to Libya’s eastern armed forces and its powerful commander, Khalifa Haftar, have blocked a vote, saying they want to protect the military’s future role.
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