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Ahmed Maiteeq is Libya's new prime minister, deputy speaker says


    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan businessman Ahmed Maiteeq is the country's new prime minister, second deputy speaker of parliament Saleh al-Makhzoun said on Sunday.

    "Ahmed Maiteeq is officially the new prime minister," Makhzoun told a chaotic session of the General National Congress.

    Some lawmakers immediately challenged this, saying Maiteeq had failed to win the necessary quorum in an earlier vote.

    (Reporting by Ahmed Elumami and Feras Bosalum; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Andrew Roche)