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Votes for Libya’s interim presidency council

Votes for Libya’s interim presidency council

EMMA FARGE and ANGUS McDOWALL PARTICIPANTS in U.N. Libya talks in Switzerland have cast votes on for a new national presidency council to create a transitional government to oversee national elections in December, although no immediate winners emerged. Candidates included the head of Libya's eastern-based House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and Osama Juwaili, a military commander in the west. The candidates for the three-person council must now consult with others to form regional lists which include nominees for prime minister before voting can resume. Attempts to form a temporary government by the talks' 75 participants, chosen by the U.N. last…
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