Fayiz al-Sarradsch

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Fayiz as-Sarradsch (2017)

Fayiz as-Sarradsch (also Fajes Serradsch and Fayez al-Sarraj , Arabic فايز مصطفى السراج, DMG Fāyiz Muṣṭafā as-Sarrāǧ ; * February 20, 1960 in Tripoli , Kingdom of Libya ) is a Libyan politician and former architect .

Since March 15, 2016, he has been Prime Minister of the Libyan transitional government Government of National Accord (GNA) and the head of state of Libya ("President of the Presidential Council") . De facto , however, he is only the ruler of Tripolitania and is in competition with the actual ruler of the Cyrenaica , Chalifa Haftar .

On July 15, 2018, the Speaker of the Parliament in Tobruk Aqilah Salah declared Fayez al-Sarraj's claim to office to be illegal. The army will liberate western Libya just like Benghazi and Derna before. The agreements, which were made under the auspices of the United Nations , were not signed by the Council of Deputies and also passed over the legislative authorities in Libya.

Life

As-Sarradsch's father was already a minister in the Kingdom of Libya . He himself was elected in 2012 as a member of the parliament in Tripoli, the General National Congress. During Ahmed Miitig's brief tenure , he was appointed Libyan Minister of Construction. 2014 he was appointed to the Council of Deputies elected, consisting of the general election in 2014 has emerged.

In October 2015, the UN envoy in Libya, Bernardino León , proposed the formation of a national unity government to end the second Libyan civil war , led by al-Sarradsch as prime minister. However, the formation of this unity government was rejected by the government in Tobruk and the rival General National Congress in Tripoli. Ahmed Miitig was appointed as Fayiz al-Sarradsch's deputy . As-Sarradsch and Miitig arrived in Tripoli from exile in Tunisia at the end of March , whereupon large parts of the West and parts of the East recognized the new government in the following weeks.

As-Sarradsch's greatest success to date is the liberation of Sirte in August 2016 by his military associations, where the Islamic State had set up a terror regime from 2015.

After supporters of the General National Congress stormed the building of the High Council of State on October 14, 2016 , fighting broke out between supporters of al-Sarradsch and Khalifa al-Ghweil .

In 2017, various meetings between Serradsch and Haftar took place, but so far they have not achieved a breakthrough or a peace treaty, only declarations of intent . At the end of 2017, the situation between al-Sarradsch and Haftar relaxed. Both wanted parliamentary elections for the end of 2018 and the formation of a united Libyan army that would pacify the country and enable new elections. Talks on this have been going on in Cairo since October 2017 .

In 2019 these talks failed and direct fighting broke out between the troops of the two rulers.

Web links

Commons : Fayez al-Sarraj  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Tobruk parliament speaker says 'the army' will 'liberate' western Libya as it did in Benghazi and Derna” , The Libya Observer , July 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Chief of Libya's new UN-backed government arrives in Tripoli" , The Guardian , March 30, 2016th
  3. ↑ Rival group seizes Libya's UN-backed government offices TRT World, October 15, 2016
  4. ^ "Libyan PM Al-Sarraj and Haftar agree to ceasefire at Paris talks" , France 24 , July 25, 2017.
  5. ^ "Libyan military officials meet in Cairo, agree on preserving unified, sovereign state" , Ahram Online , March 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Christoph Sydow: Advance of Warlord Haftar: In Tripoli, Europe's Libya policy fails . In: Spiegel Online . April 8, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 8, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Sarradsch, Fayiz as-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarradsch, Fajes Mostefa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan politician and architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli