{"id":1153,"date":"2014-11-06T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:07:23","slug":"libyan-court-dissolves-un-backed-parliament-middle-east-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Libyan court dissolves UN-backed parliament &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/11\/libyan-court-suspends-un-backed-parliament-201411691057750925.html\">Libyan court dissolves UN-backed parliament &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Libya&#8217;s Supreme Court has announced the dissolution of the UN-backed elected parliament, which has taken refuge in the eastern city of Tobruk, while another parliament vying for legitimacy is stationed in the capital, Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Constitutional Circuit in the Supreme Court has ruled\u00a0on Thursday to accept the appeal concerning the illegality&#8221; of developments leading to the elections, the news agency LANA reported,<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced on Thursday, came in light of a request by an MP to rule on the constitutionality of the June 25 vote that led to the creation of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s decision, which sets the stage for more political chaos in the divided country, casts shadows on the future of al-Thinni&#8217;s government that was fighting armed groups, as it sought to restore law and order in the North African oil-rich country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libyan court dissolves UN-backed parliament &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Libya&#8217;s Supreme Court has announced the dissolution of the UN-backed elected parliament, which has taken refuge in the eastern city of Tobruk, while another parliament vying for legitimacy is stationed in the capital, Tripoli. &#8220;The Constitutional Circuit in the Supreme Court has ruled\u00a0on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[484,917,918,822],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-libya","tag-libyan-parliament","tag-libyan-supreme-court","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}