Reuters, The Telegraph, and Others Misrepresent Jan 24 HoR Vote

Reuters, The Telegraph, The FT, and many other major news outlets are misrepresenting the HoR's vote concerning the proposed GNA ministerial list.  Simply put these main stream media outlets are wrong in saying that the HoR has rejected the  UN-mediated unity government.  The HoR have accepted the Unity government idea and the political pact behind it (The Dec 17 Shkirat Agreement)  They have simply rejected the ministerial list proposed last week. To understand this issue in further depth consider this:  According to the LPA, the HoR would have needed to endorse the government by 29 January with a 128 vote majority.  This vote  happened on 24 January by 89 votes out of 104 the House of Representatives rejected the UN-backed ministerial list. The vote was required to enshrine the LPA and the GNA within the 3 August 2011 Temporary Constitutional Declaration. This would have made the ministerial list and the GNA a part of Libya's basic law and legal framework.  Now that the  vote has failed, the current iteration of the GNA lacks a legal basis inside Libya.However, what the mainstream media has missed is the following: The HoR did not want to be seen as irrevocably scuppering the chances of a potential GNA, therefore they asked for a new ministerial list to be offered within ten days. According to Reuters, in a second vote, 97 members of the Tobruk parliament backed the U.N.-mediated agreement that sets out a political transition for Libya and under which the Presidential Council operates. However, they rejected a clause that transfers power over military appointments to the new government. This second vote is also meant to deflect responsibility from the HoR for breaking the UN process while trying to also manipulate the international community to further favour HoR interests. Therefore although accurately presenting the facts I would say Reuters is spurious in its interpretation.  The HoR has not rejected the GNA. They have only rejected the ministerial list proposed by the Presidential Council (PC).It is unclear now if the PC will stick to the proposed GNA or propose a new ministerial list as well as how Kobler and the international community will respond.  Without a new list within ten days that can secure a majority vote in its favour, the GNA will remain illegitimate and in exile and almost certainly ineffectual as a body to overcome Libya's fractionalization.Meanwhile the international community continues to push ahead with plans to intervene decisively in Libya, including statements to that effect by the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Despite the obvious urgency for such international assistance to counter IS in Libya, the political disconnect between the UN and international missions with the Libyan context, means that the optics of a Western intervention to fight IS may be badly handled undermining any mission before it gets off the ground.