About 20 members of the House of
Representatives (HoR) called for drafting a law that designates the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, according to a Sunday statement.
The MPs claimed in the statement that the Islamist group has supported terrorist groups in many Libyan cities, including Derna and Benghazi, both politically and financially. The Muslim Brotherhood also opposes any political solution that could end the national division, the HoR members said.
The statement comes only one day after head of the High Council of State Khalid Al-Mishri declared his resignation from the Brotherhood.
In June 2014, the group lost the national parliamentarian election and refused to accept the new House of Representatives (HoR) that was elected.
After the 2011 uprising, the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi groups took 34 and 27 seats respectively—a total of 61 seats for Islamists in the General National Congress that replaced Libya’s National Transitional Council, the country’s interim legislative body. This body was established days after the beginning of the uprising.
“We will not forget the coup d’état’s attempt carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood in 2014 when it lost the democratic process during the elections. It erupted the Islamist “Dawn of Libya” war in Tripoli, which resulted in killing and destruction alongside forming a parallel government known as the National Salvation Government that supports terrorism.”
The National Salvation government was installed after a coalition of the Dawn of Libya won a battle for control of Tripoli in 2014 and reinstated a parliament known as the General National Congress.
As part of its attempt to assume power in Libya, the National Salvation Government retook in January 2017 three government buildings controlled by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.
To end the civil war raging since 2014, the Skhirat Agreement, which was put into effect on April 6, 2016, was signed in December 2015 in Morocco to unify a government.
However, the rival Tripoli-based National Salvation government rejected in April 2015 the(GNA)’s transition, launching several attacks against it since then.
