Aguila Saleh and Mohammed Takala met in Ankara and agreed to restart the 6+6 Committee. A separate UN-backed process is also moving forward, but disputes over election laws and institutional authority remain unresolved.
On Sept. 10, Aguila Saleh and Mohammed Takala met in Ankara for the first time. The House of Representatives speaker and the High Council of State president agreed to restart work on electoral laws, a major obstacle to national elections.
The meeting took place under the auspices of National Intelligence Organization chief İbrahim Kalın. Türkiye offered to host the reactivated 6+6 Committee in the coming days. The agreement was procedural. The rules remain unsettled.
A parallel UN-facilitated process is also under way. It has shown both that progress is possible and how hard it is to secure support across Libya's divided institutions.
The House of Representatives and the High Council of State established the 6+6 Committee to draft laws for presidential and parliamentary elections. Saleh and Takala also discussed political and military unity, divided state institutions, elections and continued Libya-Türkiye cooperation. The committee's immediate task is narrower: finish the outstanding electoral legislation.
Libya's record makes implementation the real test. Elections planned for December 2021 collapsed amid disputes over electoral rules, presidential candidates and constitutional authority. Since Muammar Gaddafi fell in 2011, agreements and roadmaps have repeatedly failed to produce lasting political arrangements. That record is stark.
The 30 August agreement, reached through the UN-backed
