Libyan Parliament Approves Ban on Gaddafi-era Officials

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Libyan parliament approved a new law banning former members of the government of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi from holding political office yesterday. The law passed the country’s General National Congress (GNC) by 164 votes to 4, amid pressure from militias demanding its introduction and the removal of Gaddafi-era officials after months of parliamentary wrangling. Under the new law, people who held official posts between 1969 and Gaddafi’s downfall i...

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Surviving the Ides of March

More good news than normal has come out of Libya these past two weeks. On April 10, the General National Congress (GNC) agreed to amend the constitutional declaration to elect a sixty-member constituent assembly that would draft a constitution in the allocated time. A few days ago, Law 30 of 2013 made GNC member Suleiman Aud Zubi the president of the committee that would oversee the law regulating that election of the committee. And on April 4, an errant militia gave the prime minister back his...

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