A meeting of the Libyan Parliament and the Supreme State Council is convened in January

The Libyan Presidential Council summoned the president of the Council of Deputies (Parliament), Aguila Saleh, and the head of the Supreme State Council, Khaled al Mashri, to a meeting in the city of Ghadames (west) on 11 January to resolve the political crisis in the country.

In her statement to the private television channel 'Febrayer' (February), the spokeswoman for the Presidential Council, Najwa Wahiba, limited herself to informing of the call in an official letter to the aforementioned institutions as part of her initiative to resolve the dispute over the constitutional regime.

Aguila Saleh had invited the MPs to hold an official session next Monday; in this context, a member of parliament from the east Abdusalam Nasiya, said that during the upcoming parliamentary session they will discuss the paths of constitutional reform, sovereign positions and executive authority. "The main problem of the political crisis is the disagreement over the election of the president and we hope that communication with the Supreme State Council will be established," the MP said. 

On 5 December, Saleh and Al Mashri were scheduled to meet under UN auspices in the western city of Zintan, but the UN envoy to Libya, Abdullah Batili, announced that it could not take place for "logistical reasons".

The last meeting between the two leaders took place last October in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, where they announced that they had reached an agreement to "carry out a change of sovereign positions and unify the executive power before the end of this year".

Since last March, the parallel government installed in the eastern city of Tobruk headed by Fathi Bashagha, appointed by the aforementioned parliament, has been fighting for power with the internationally recognised government led by Abdulhamid al-Dbeiba - based in Tripoli - which refuses to hand over power except to a government assigned to it by a newly elected parliament.