(Reuters) – Libya’s Parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, discussed with U.S. senior officials efforts to hold timely and transparent elections and to ”establish economic and political security,” he said in a tweet early on Wednesday.
The eastern-based parliament appointed Bashagha in March, but the sitting prime minister, Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, refused to cede power leading to a prolonged standoff between the two rival governments.
(Reporting by Yasmin Hussein; Writing by Enas Alashray; Editing by Leslie Adler)
