Tunisia Live (Tunis)
Ahmed Medien
26 November 2011
Abderrahim Al Keib, Libya’s interim Prime Minister, and his appointed government took oath today in a ceremony at 2pm with the presence of Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the Libyan National Transitional Council.
The ministers took oath “to commit to the objectives of the revolution of February 17th,” to preserve the country’s independence, sovereignty and the unification of its territories.
Most of the newly-appointed ministers were present at Abdeljalil’s office, but several other ministers, including the new Minister of Defense, Supreme Chief of Zintan legions, the Oil Minister and the Minister of Health, were abroad.
The new government is composed of technocrats whose task will be to reunite post-Gaddafi Libya and organize the country’s first general elections in seven months.
Abderrahim Al Keib told AFP, “I will not be someone who would overlook any small piece of Libya, but I will represent everybody and will share the wealth with everybody.”
However, on a recent post on AP, former oil and finance minister Ali Tarhouni accused the new cabinet of being unrepresentative of the Libyan people. In a previous press conference last Thursday, he also sharply criticized them of having too close of bonds with foreign powers such as Qatar.
In the same post, Tarhouni claimed that more than 90 percent of Libyans are not represented by this new leadership. This claim was also endorsed by Mustafa Abdel Jalil, who said that Qatar was indeed meddling in Libya’s internal affairs.
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