Libyan Constitutional Court sets parliamentary majority at 81 MPs
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Libya HeraldOur method
Libya’s Supreme Constitutional Court rules that the House of Representatives’ absolute majority must be calculated from members who legally retain their mandates, rather than the total number of seats. With 160 members in office, the threshold is set at 81, according to Libya Herald.
Libya’s Constitutional Court has set the absolute majority required in the House of Representatives at 81 members, according to the legal interpretation issued at the request of Ossama Hammad, head of the government based in eastern Libya. The decision was reported by the eastern state news agency LANA, cited by Libya Herald.
To make this calculation, the Court uses the actual number of MPs who legally retain their mandate and excludes vacant seats. The majority must therefore be determined from members actually in office, not the total number of seats allocated to the House of Representatives.
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