Basic People's Congress
The Basic People's Congress ( Arabic المؤتمر الشعبي الأساسي, DMG al-muʾtamar aš-šaʿbī al-asāsī ) was the smallest unit of the government system in Libya under the dictatorship of Muammar al-Gaddafi .
Usually it regulates the equivalent of a municipality (the geographical administrative unit was also called the Basic People's Congress in Libya ). The congress consisted of all men and women of legal age.
The actual congress met in three scheduled sessions per year or when necessary. The first meeting was usually devoted to a detailed agenda for the next two meetings. In the second session of the grassroots people's congress questions of the local economy were discussed, while in the third session the seats in the committees were determined and the elected representatives of politics at national and international level were discussed.
The next higher political level were the district congresses and then the General People's Congress at the top.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk J. Vandewalle: Libya since independence: oil and state-building. IB Tauris, London 1998, pages 95-97, ISBN 1-86064-264-0 .