Libya to get rid of Brotherhood in 2020

Mohamed Yousry

Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood organization is worried that the Libyan National Army (LNA), which is led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, would take over Tripoli soon.

Field Marshal Haftar has announced deadline to free Tripoli from the Muslim Brotherhood and its Government of National Accord, which is led by Fayez al-Sarraj.

Al-Sarraj in a desperate move signed an agreement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on November 28. The agreement has exposed the Brotherhood’s dilemma as the organization is fighting for survival as it may be disbanded in 2020.

A number of Brotherhood members, including Khalid al-Mishri, the Chairman of the High Council of State, seceded from the group due to organizational reasons.

On January 26, al-Mishri resigned from the Justice and Construction Party, the Brotherhood’s political arm in Libya.

A number of the Libyan Presidential Council members, including Fathi al-Qatrani, Fathi al-Mijabri and Omar al-Aswad, also resigned.

From all of these defections, and al-Sarraj’s move, we conclude that there is a crisis facing the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, especially in light of pressures of the Libyan National Army.

The al-Sarraj-led Government of National Accord has joined forces with the terrorist militias, in violation of the Skhirat agreement, which was signed on December 17, 2015.

The Skhirat agreement states that the term of the Government of National Accord is one year as of the approval of the Tobruk parliament.