{{Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has said his brief kidnap this week was an “attempted coup”, blaming his political opponents for the attack.}}
In a TV address to the nation, he said an unnamed political party in the congress was behind the abduction.
Ali Zeidan was seized from a Tripoli hotel on Thursday and held for several hours by armed militiamen.
He praised the armed groups that came to rescue him and later called for calm in the increasingly lawless country.
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In the TV address with members of his cabinet standing staunchly around him, Mr Zeidan said that his kidnap “bears the hallmarks of an attempted coup d’etat against legitimacy”.
“A political party”, he said, was behind what he described as the “criminal and terrorist act”.
Referring to his political opponents as a “dangerous minority”, the prime minister said they had tried to secure enough votes in the congress to have him dismissed.
“When they failed to bring down the government through democratic means, they resorted to the use of force,” he added.
{Ali Zeidan: “This bears the hallmarks of an attempted coup d’etat against legitimacy”}
Agencies
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