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The outcome is seen as a setback for eastern heavyweights most obviously Aguila Saleh Issa the speaker of Libya's House of Representatives (HoR) who had been lobbying hard for the presidency who saw his slate with Fathi Bashagha narrowly defeated...
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Tripoli-based interior minister Fathi Bashagha who is backed by Turkey is the front runner for the premiership but he has been struggling to find running mates for the presidency and two vice-presidencies...
They also now believe that the GNA or some of its members such as the powerful Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha will remain in power or be involved in any future government...
The influential GNA Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha signed a security cooperation agreement with Qatar on 26 October...
Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has said that the GNA is determined not only to recover Sirte Jufra and all the south but to 'cleanse' the entire country of 'putschists' while the head of the State Council Khalid Mishri has called on GNA forces to carry on to Tobruk...
Victoria Coates deputy national security advisor for Middle East and North African affairs at the National Security Council has held a rapid series of meetings with the head of the GNA Faiez el Serraj its Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and then General Haftar on 24 November...
The now-undisputed strongman in western Libya GNA interior minister Fathi Bashagha admitted on 4 July this was being considered...
Just after the LNA's capture of Gharyan the PC's powerful interior minister Fathi Bashagha declared that an Arab state – thought to be Saudi Arabia – had given the green light to Haftar's offensive (AC Vol 60 No 5 Haftar puts south in the game)...
They were convinced that the clashes had been engineered by the Serraj-appointed Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha possibly with Serraj's complicity in an attempt to destroy them...
He also was opposed to the presence of Mishri a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the PC's interior minister Fathi Bashagha the dominant Misurata military figure...