The lawyer and legal expert, Dr. Saleh Al-Zahaf, in an exclusive statement to our source, regarding the decision of the Minister of Economy and Trade regarding the prohibition of all retail or wholesale commercial activities for non-Libyans, as Al-Zahaf commented, saying: “This decision aims to limit direct commercial competition for expatriates, whether they are Arabs or foreigners. This type of activity is commercial and not investment, therefore it does not conflict with the foreign or national investment law, as commercial work is always short-term and investment is fluctuating from three years or more, and therefore there is no conflict between this decision and the foreign investment law.”
He added: “If it is true, it may lead to the transfer of the license to a fictitious license and fictitious work on the part of the Libyan party, and the survival of the activity for the foreign party, and this is also a disease suffered by the peoples who have been afflicted with the public sector and the job in the public sector has dominated the national culture, and therefore the radical solution is to fight the public sector and job laziness which the entire Libyan society suffers from.”
