Idris Boufaied, a member of the High Council of State (HCS), issued a stark warning today, stressing that ignoring the Hurghada Agreement would constitute a “national setback and a regression for the path of state-building.” He concluded by stating that the Council must stand up to its historic duty before the people and history, “or cease to exist.”
In a Facebook post, Boufaied argued that the activation of the outcomes from the (6+6) Committee and the Bouznika Agreement must be linked to the Hurghada Agreement signed between the House of Representatives (HoR) and the HCS in January 2021. He emphasised that the Hurghada Agreement is “more credible” and benefits from consensus and official UN documentation.
Boufaied criticised what he called a “clear selectivity” by the UN mission, the HoR, and the HCS in implementing certain agreements while neglecting others.
He challenged the UN mission’s past justification for sidelining the Hurghada Agreement due to “time constraints” before the December 2021 elections, questioning the logic of this reasoning “four years after that date.”
The HCS member asserted that the Council’s ratification of the Hurghada Agreement by a large majority places it under a “moral and national responsibility” to ensure its implementation, viewing it as a foremost achievement of the Libyan-Libyan dialogue. Consequently, he called for the necessity of aligning the (6+6) Committee’s laws with the Hurghada outcomes
