Local News: Political News
Voters Head to Polling Stations to Elect 60 Member Constitution Committee
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\n Tripoli, 20 February 2014(LANA) Polling stations opened across Libya on Thursday where more than one million registered voters were expected to cast their ballots to choose the 60 member committee that would be responsible for drawing up a constitution for a country which under the dictatorial regime of Gaddafi was run without a constitution for more than four decades.\n 649 candidates will be elected to the committee including 64 women. They are divided over the country main three regions, the Western, the Eastern and the Southern with 60 members each, five seats were reserved to... Read more
Understanding was Reached Zaidan: Events in Tripoli, Stresses Government Rejection of Military Coup
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\n Head of Interim Government Says Understanding was Reached on Events in Tripoli, Stresses Government Rejection of Military Coup\n Tripoli, 19 January 2104(LANA) The Head of the Interim Government has declared that an understanding was reached over the events in Tripoli, that followed a statement by a border guard brigade in which it demanded the General National Congress members to step down.\n In a statement last night, the head of Government said \'an understanding was reached this afternoon, and wisdom prevailed, I am confident that the General National Congress will take the... Read more
Ambassador : Use Force Not instrument to Change Democratically-Elected Institutions
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\nUS Ambassador : Use of Force Not Legitimate Instrument to Change Democratically-Elected Institutions\n Tripoli, 19 February 2014(LANA) The US Ambassador Debora Jones said the use of force was not a legitimate tool to change democratically-elected institutions.\n In remarks over the events in Libya, carried by the Middle East news agency, Jones said the United States fully supported the legitimacy of the democratic transition in Libya as set in the constitutional declaration of August 2011, stressing that the US supported the elected authority.\n =LANA=\n\n... Read more
Libya Takes Part in Conference of Parliamentary Union OIC Member States
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\n\nLibya Takes Part in Conference of Parliamentary Union OIC Member States\n Tehran, 19 February 2014(LANA) Libya is taking part in the conference of the Parliamentary Union OIC Member States which opened on Wednesday in Tehran.\n Libya\'s delegation is led by Abdul Hafidh Al Dayekh, Member of the General National Congress.\n In remarks Al Dayekh made at the meeting on behalf of the President of the General National Congress, he said Libya has undergone several changes since the Feb 17 Revolution to create the democratic institutions and establishment of state on the basis of... Read more
Great Tripoli trade unions reject any armed move to end a democratic issue
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\\nTripoli, 19.02.2014 (Lana) Great Tripoli trade unions have rejected any armed move to address a democratic issue, considering such a matter as dragging the country backwards and sowing division between national fabric, an attitude of the former regime.\\nA statement by the unions Wednesday - a copy of which was received by Lana- expressed understanding of the care of revolutionaries for Libyans and Libya, but it cautioned against being e driven by emotions and forgetting the will of the Libyan people.\\nThe statement supported the peaceful dynamics opposing extending the GNC term and... Read more