MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s interim prime minister said he was resigning on Saturday and urged new leaders to seize a “very limited opportunity” and resolve rivalries now surfacing after Muammar Gaddafi’s death.
With regional differences emerging about what to do with Gaddafi’s still unburied body, the formal end to the war and the carve-up of power, Libya’s outgoing premier said the coming days posed a crucial test of resolve for the new men in power.
Mahmoud Jibril said he would step down later on Saturday, after seven months as prime minister of the Western-backed rebel government now that the legal declaration of “liberation” was expected on Sunday following Gaddafi’s killing on Thursday.
But in a parting shot at an international business forum in Jordan, he warned Libyans to avoid in-fighting if Libyans were to keep to a plan to hold their first free election next year.
Leaders required “resolve,” he said, “in the next few days.”
In Misrata, the curious and the relieved filed for a second day through a market cold store to view the body of Gaddafi, whose surprise capture and killing in his hometown of Sirte sparked joy – and renewed jockeying for postwar influence.
Visitors wore surgical masks against the stench,
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