Libya's eastern-based House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to replace Speaker Aguila Saleh, who had held the post for 12 years, with Al-Salhin Abdelnabi al-Obeidi, a fellow Tobruk-area lawmaker from Saleh's tribe. The vote followed a decision a day earlier to limit the speaker and deputies to a single 12-month term; Saleh called the earlier vote legally void, while lawmakers cited his unilateral decisions. Analysts see it as a sign of Saddam Haftar, son of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar, tightening his grip on the east, at a time when Libya remains split between the UN-recognised Tripoli government and the Haftar-backed eastern administration, and as rival camps pursue a UN-mediated deal for elections within two years.