FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2015 file photo, U.N. special envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, speaks during a press conference at the Palais des Congres of Skhirate, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Rabat, Morocco. Libya's parliament drops out of U.N.-brokered negotiations in protest against a draft plan for it to share power with its rivals, throwing doubt on what is seen as a last-chance effort to avert the further collapse of the North African nation. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File) (The Associated Press)
CAIRO – Representatives of Libya's internationally-recognized parliament have suspended their participation in United Nations-brokered talks over a proposed power-sharing scheme with a rival Islamist-led government.
A spokesman for the parliament's negotiators, Essa Abdel-Kauoum, told The Associated Press the council made its decision on Tuesday after U.N. envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon "succumbed" to Islamist demands and presented a draft proposal that gives them more power.
Libya is split between an Islamist-led government backed by militias that seized the capital last August and an internationally recognized elected parliament forced to convene in the country's far east.
The U.N. draft stipulates the formation of a national unity government and would create a new Islamist-dominated body with legislative and executive powers.
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