National Front (Libya)

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حزب الجبهة الوطنية
National Front
Libya National Front Party logo.png
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Party leader Mohamed el-Magariaf
founding May 2012 by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya
Alignment Liberalism , progressivism ,
Website http://www.jabha.ly/

The National Front , (full name National Front Party ; Arabic حزب الجبهة الوطنية, DMG Hizb al-Jabha al-Wataniyya ) is a Libyan political party that was founded in May 2012.

It is closely associated with the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL), a former resistance movement founded in 1981 against the rule of Muammar al-Gaddafi . The party is led by Yusef el-Magariaf , an intellectual dissident from eastern Libya .

Goals and content

The National Front is seen as liberal and progressive . It strives for a democratic government and a certain degree of decentralization, but rejects a federal system. The strongholds of the National Front Party are in the eastern region of Kyrenaica .

The party program ostensibly aims to rebuild Libya. It supports women's rights, free elections and democratic change.

Election and governance

In the 2012 election for the Libyan National Congress , the National Front won three of the 80 seats available for party lists (120 were reserved for non-party members). On August 9, the chairman of the National Front, el-Magariaf, was elected President of the National Congress and thus interim head of state. The Party for Justice and the Rebuild of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had supported el-Magariaf for tactical reasons in order to later push through its candidate for the office of prime minister. But the candidate of the National Front, Mustafa Abu Shagur , also prevailed in the election of the head of government .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Libya: Smaller liberal party won three seats , Tiroler Tageszeitung, July 18, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Umar Khan: Libya's delayed elections are hard to call . In: The Guardian , June 5, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Astrid Frefel: The Ghadhafi opponent Magariaf new interim head of state , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 10, 2012
    Libya: Parliament elects Gaddafi opponent , DW, August 10, 2012
    Arab Spring: Ex-Prime Minister Jibril, election winner in Libya ( memento from 20. July 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Financial Times Deutschland, July 18, 2012
    Maggie Michael: After Gaddafi's fall: jubilation at first free election in Libya , Frankfurter Rundschau, July 7, 2012
  4. ↑ a b New Prime Minister in Libya , merkur-online.de, September 13, 2012
  5. ↑ Election as President of the National Congress: Magarief is Libya's new strong man ( Memento from August 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Tagesschau.de, August 10, 2012
    Interim President in Libya Parliament elects al-Magarief as chairman , Stern, August 10 2012
  6. ↑ a b Patrick Haimzadeh: Libya's Unquiet Election . In: Middle East Online , July 3, 2012. 
  7. ↑ Margaret Coker: Libya Election Panel Battles Ghosts . In: The Wall Street Journal , June 22, 2012. 
  8. ^ Umar Khan: Party Profile: The National Front . In: Libya Herald , June 30, 2012.