Libya’s Rival Governments Propose a Merger to Hold Elections

Tripoli and Tobruk plan a reunified government, but the UN and wider international community are wary of this approach.

Libya has found itself in an anomalous predicament. Its two deeply divided and competing governments are in rare accord about how to take the riven country forward – but the international community largely opposes them both.

In July, the House of Representatives in the eastern city of Tobruk, and the rival Tripoli-based High State Council in the west, approved a plan emanating…