(VOVworld) – On Thursday, the Libyan Presidential Council members began talks aiming to form a new unity government as proposed under a UN-sponsored agreement to end the country's political division in the Moroccan city of Skhirat.

Libyan Prime Minister-designate Faiez al-Sarraj (L), and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Tunis (Photo: thearabweekly.com)

These talks come after the previous cabinet was rejected by the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), Libya’s internationally-recognized law body. According to a UN-brokered deal signed in December by representatives of various parties taking part in the inter-Libyan dialogue, a new government should be based in Tripoli, and should win the HoR’s endorsement. At a session at the parliament’s headquarters in the eastern city of Tubruk on January 25, 89 out of 104 members voted against the proposed new government. They said it included too many posts, and that the Tunis-based Presidential Council now has 10 days to put forward a new, shorter list of ministers.