Libyan sources reported that more columns armed with heavy weapons entered Tripoli from the west and south.


According to local media, the moves are aimed at preventing Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha a from entering the capital.

 

On Friday, large numbers of military vehicles were seen coming from Misurata, Zintan, and Al-Zawiya, carrying medium and heavy weapons heading toward Tripoli.


Those armed groups, which were reported to be affiliated with the unity government headed by Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba, later arrived in the capital, chanting slogans, "The day of decisiveness is approaching."


These field moves came a day after a meeting held by Bashagha, with a number of the most prominent militia leaders in Misurata, at his residence in Tunis.


A Possible War


As fears escalate inside and outside Libya, that the prime minister-designate will be forced into the capital in order to seize power from the incumbent prime minister, who refuses to give it up, before elections are held in the country, that might spark fighting between the militias supporting him and those loyal to Bashagha.


The two deputies of Bashagha took over the headquarters of the government in eastern and southern Libya, but international mediation is still underway between the two parties regarding a peaceful transfer of power in Tripoli.


While the international position is focused on supporting the initiative of UN Chancellor Stephanie Williams to form a committee from the House of Representatives and what is known as the State Council to formulate a constitutional rule for the expected elections, which the parties failed to hold on a previously set date.