Pressure from the parliament has continued to mount on Fayez al-Sarraj’s Presidential Council in wake of the clashes that have raged in the Libyan capital Tripoli throughout the week. The clashes have left at least 30 people dead and prompted calls by some 80 lawmakers for Sarraj to resign and for the formation of a smaller presidential council, comprised of a president and two deputies. Clashes on Friday pitted the “Tripoli Revolutionaries” brigade against the “7th Brigade”, sources and witnesses said. The 7th Brigade said in a statement that it was waging a battle to “rid Tripoli of criminal and corruption militias.” A ceasefire was announced earlier this week, but it was breached by arbitrary militia shelling at residential and civilian areas in the capital, a move condemned by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya. The unrest led some 80 lawmakers, who support the 2015 Skhirat agreement on Libya, to demand that Sarraj stand for a no confidence vote at parliament due to militias being allowed free reign in the capital. As the fighting intensified, demands also rose for a change of the Presidential Council. MP Mohammed Ibrahim Tamer defended the call for a no confidence vote because Sarraj “did not succeed in any reform, whether in regards to the Government of National Accord (GNA) or in implementing the security demands” stipulated in the Skhirat political agreement. He also cited to Asharq Al-Awsat the poor living conditions and economy. “Withdrawing confidence from Sarraj is the solution” and this has been agreed by supporters of the Presidential Council, as well as its opponents, he added. “Is it acceptable for clashes to rage in Tripoli for days and to claim dozens of lives while the GNA head has done nothing to stop them?” he wondered. “Tripoli belongs to all the Libyans, not one faction at the expense of another,” he stressed, saying that Sarraj was now part of the problem. The ongoing clashes forced on Friday the closure of Tripoli airport after some rockets were fired in its direction, a spokesman for the state airline Libyan Airlines said. Flights will be diverted to Misrata airport, the spokesman said, without elaborating. Misrata lies about 190 km (120 miles) east of Tripoli. Matiga airport lies in an eastern suburb. The spokesman said Matiga airport would be closed for 48 hours, citing a directive of the civil aviation authority.