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| Libya's parliament finally approves first cabinet | Libya's parliament finally approves first cabinet |
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| Libya's parliament finally approved its first cabinet on Wednesday, nearly four months after MPs were elected in July. | Libya's parliament finally approved its first cabinet on Wednesday, nearly four months after MPs were elected in July. |
| The cabinet of the prime minister, Ali Zeidan, was approved by 105 members of the 200-member parliament, with nine objections and 18 abstentions among the 132 MPs who attended the session. | The cabinet of the prime minister, Ali Zeidan, was approved by 105 members of the 200-member parliament, with nine objections and 18 abstentions among the 132 MPs who attended the session. |
| It marks the end of a fraught process which has seen the national congress stormed three times in the past month by angry protesters, most recently on Tuesday night, and the sacking of a former prime minister, Mustafa Abushagur, in early October. | It marks the end of a fraught process which has seen the national congress stormed three times in the past month by angry protesters, most recently on Tuesday night, and the sacking of a former prime minister, Mustafa Abushagur, in early October. |
| Wednesday's session was also cut short by demonstrators. | Wednesday's session was also cut short by demonstrators. |
| "The government was approved. Now the session is over due to the mess outside," congress member Suleiman Zoubi told Reuters. | "The government was approved. Now the session is over due to the mess outside," congress member Suleiman Zoubi told Reuters. |
| The cabinet appears to include a substantial number of technocrats, with the key power ministers of economics, finance, industry, interior, justice, oil and planning each holding an MA or Phd. | The cabinet appears to include a substantial number of technocrats, with the key power ministers of economics, finance, industry, interior, justice, oil and planning each holding an MA or Phd. |
| The interior minister, Ashour Suleiman Shuwail, a former police officer, and the defence minister, Mohammed Al Bargati, a former airforce pilot, both hail from eastern Libya, in a move apparently aimed at lessening separatist sentiment from this oil-rich region. | The interior minister, Ashour Suleiman Shuwail, a former police officer, and the defence minister, Mohammed Al Bargati, a former airforce pilot, both hail from eastern Libya, in a move apparently aimed at lessening separatist sentiment from this oil-rich region. |
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