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Monday, July 9, 2012

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The Libyans vote for the first time after the fall of Gaddafi


Only the truly elderly Libyans could remember a similar day. 60 years ago they voted in national elections . On Saturday, nearly three million registered voters have long tails, some have cried while waiting to vote for an assembly of 200 deputies who have the task of appointing a new government and prepare for elections in 2013, after being drafted a Libya's new constitution. At night, the most enthusiastic have celebrated with fireworks vote in Tripoli, and even throwing grenades towards the sea in Benghazi. There have been, even though 94% of polling stations have been reopened, riots in some cities of Cyrenaica, the eastern unhappy with the allocation of seats that corresponds to the assembly.The most serious occurred in Ajdabiya, where a man trying to steal a ballot box shot dead. One hundred of the 200 seats are elected in Tripolitania, always seen with suspicion from Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica birthplace of the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi in February 2011. In Cyrenaica, where and in March on a platform of political and tribal leaders demanded a federal system, are chosen 60, and 40 in the southern region of Fezzan. In Benghazi, in the oil city of Ras Lanuf in Ajdabiya and in any other city in the east, armed men prevented the opening of schools and burned electoral materials. The president of the Supreme Electoral Commission Nuri al Abar, has announced Sunday that 1.7 million Libyans (of the 2.8 registered on the electoral roll), voted on Saturday to choose the first legislative assembly, which represents a 60%. In a country where they have been dismantled from the ground state structures, where the militias are owners of land in various cities and sometimes violently impose his authority to the central government, as sudden changes are fundamental. A few hours before polls opened, the National Transitional Council (CNT), the agency has conducted Libya last year and a half, stripped the Assembly now elects competition to write the constitution. Thus sought to appease CNT groups demanding greater autonomy for Cyrenaica, marginalized for decades by Gaddafi and under whose subsoil est to many of the oil reserves. "The country is in a state of paralysis because no one in government listens to us" , has told Reuters Hamed al Hassi, Member of Military Council of Cyrenaica. The results of these elections will be announced on Monday, but there is little doubt that, as in the elections in Egypt and Tunisia, political parties and Islamic identity will be made ​​with most of the seats. The party created by the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Watan-directed by Abdelhakim Belhaj, one of the most important commanders of the revolt, and a third group of Salafi court contest the seats the party headed by former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, of a liberal . But forecasts become very complicated because of the 200 parliamentarians, 120 are elected from among independent candidates who respond to volatile tribal loyalties, regional or local.

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