Election to the Libyan National Congress 2012

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Election to the Libyan National Congress 2012
(Be right)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
48.1%
10.3%
4.1%
15.3%
22.2%
Independent
Otherwise.
Distribution of seats:
  • Alliance of National Forces , 39 seats
  • Justice and Construction Party , 17 seats
  • National front , 3 seats
  • Union for home country , 2 seats
  • National Center Party , 2 seats
  • Wadi al Hayah Party , 2 seats
  • other parties / blocks, 15 seats
  • Independent, 120 seats

    • The election for the Libyan General National Congress 2012 took place on July 7th. It was the first multi-party election in Libya in over 60 years.

    The National Congress was the successor to the General People's Congress , was a provisional parliament and appointed an interim government. Unlike at times planned, he did not have the authority to elect the members of the constitutional commission.

    Requirements of the electoral law

    According to the electoral law passed by the National Transitional Council (NTC) at the end of January 2012, the National Congress had 200 members. 80 mandates were awarded to members of political parties and the remaining 120 to independent candidates. The western region had 102 MPs, the eastern 60, the south 29, and the middle region, including the Sirte and Jufra, 9.

    Parties addressing regional groups were also not allowed. They should also have at least 250 members. On April 24, the Transitional Council published a draft law banning radical religious parties. At the beginning of May, however, the transition council announced that it would withdraw this bill. Only parties that are offshoots of a foreign party were not admitted. They were not allowed to receive funds from abroad. Every second candidate position on the party lists had to be filled by a woman.

    Unlike initially planned by the Transitional Council, the General National Congress did not elect the 60 members of the constitutional commission. This plan met with opposition, particularly from the eastern Libyan region of Kyrenaica . Shortly before the election, the NTC decided to let the people vote in a separate election.

    procedure

    The election was originally supposed to take place on June 19, 2012, but for logistical reasons, election officer Ahmed Al-Abbar moved it to July 7 at the beginning of June.

    From May 1, 2012, voters and candidates could register for the election. The total of 3.4 million Libyans eligible to vote were able to register in 1,350 pubs across the country. There were 13 registration offices for the candidates. As of May 23, 3.0 million voters had registered, 48% of whom were women.

    3,700 candidates, including 585 women, stood for election. 2,500 of them represented a party and 1,200 were independent candidates.

    Libyans abroad were able to cast their votes in their country's embassies in Great Britain , Germany , Canada , Jordan , the United Arab Emirates and the United States .

    In the eastern part of the country, separatists stormed some election offices and set fire to ballot boxes and ballot papers. The police shot an attacker.

    Result

    Of the remaining 80 parliamentary seats that were allocated when voting on party lists, the Alliance of National Forces of the former interim head of government Mahmoud Jibril received the most seats with 39, followed by the Justice and Rebuilding Party of the Islamist Brotherhood (17 seats). The remaining places went to around 20 smaller parties with a predominantly regional base.

    Favored by the special party list regulation, 33 women were also elected to the National Congress.

    Party / alliance be right proportion of Seats
    Alliance of National Forces 714.769 48.14% 39
    Justice and Construction Party 152,521 10.27% 17th
    National Front Party 60,592 4.08% 3
    Union for homeland 66,772 4.50% 2
    National Center Party 59,417 4.00% 2
    Wadi-al-Hayah party 6,947 0.47% 2
    Moderate ummah gathering 21,825 1.47% 1
    Authenticity and renewal 18,745 1.26% 1
    National Party for Democracy and Welfare 17,158 1.16% 1
    Wisdom party 17.129 1.15% 1
    Authenticity and progress 13,679 0.92% 1
    Libyan National Democratic Party 13.092 0.88% 1
    Alliance of National Parties 12,735 0.86% 1
    Embassy 7,860 0.53% 1
    Centrist youth party 7,319 0.49% 1
    Libya - The Hope 6.093 0.41% 1
    Labaika National Party 3,472 0.23% 1
    Libyan Party for Freedom and Development 2,691 0.18% 1
    Foundation, endowment 1,525 0.10% 1
    Nation and prosperity 1,400 0.09% 1
    National Party of Wadi Ash-Shati ' 1,355 0.09% 1
    al-Watan party 51.292 3.45% 0
    Independent 226.415 15.25% 120
    Valid votes 1,484,723 -
    Invalid / Empty -
    total 2,865,937 100% 200
    Sources: Libya Herald , Middle East Democracy Project (PDF; 161 kB)

    Web links

    Footnotes

    1. ↑ a b Libya: Employees of the election commission killed . Spiegel Online , July 6, 2012
    2. ↑ Markus Bickel: Ten months after Gaddafi's fall: Libyans vote for a national congress . FAZ , July 6, 2012
    3. ^ Elections - Libya: Background: Roadmap for the transition period . ( Memento from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) zeit.de, July 7, 2012
    4. ↑ a b AFP : Libya elections postponed to July 7 . gulfnews.com, June 11, 2012; Retrieved July 7, 2012.
    5. ↑ Dirk J. Vandewalle (Ed.): A history of modern Libya . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-85048-3 , pp. 59 .
    6. ↑ First election in Libya: euphoria, burned ballots and one dead . Welt online , July 7, 2012
    7. ↑ Elections: Libya voted again after more than 40 years . ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Time online , July 7, 2012
    8. ↑ Libya has announced the results of the first democratic elections . Basler Zeitung , July 18, 2012
    9. ↑ a b c Elections to the constitutional assembly in Libya will probably be postponed ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
    10. ↑ Libya after the revolution: "It is a dictatorship that we are now experiencing again" . Time online , February 16, 2012.
    11. ^ NTC prepares for Libya elections magharebia.com, February 14, 2012.
    12. ^ Libya drops ban on religion-based parties on May 2, 2012. Retrieved December 29, 2012
    13. ↑ Libya's Transitional Council allows religious parties to vote . ( Memento from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Stern.de, May 3, 2012; Retrieved May 4, 2012.
    14. ↑ Julia Gerlach: Elections Libya: The women of Tripoli . Frankfurter Rundschau , July 4, 2012
    15. ^ Libya opens registration for assembly vote . May 1, 2012 (English).
    16. ↑ 80% of Elgible Voters, Over 4,000 Candidates Register for Libya's June Election ( Memento of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of May 23, 2012 (English); Retrieved May 2, 2012.
    17. ↑ a b Liberal supposedly the strongest party . FAZ ,
    18. ↑ Press release of the Election Commission ( Memento of May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of May 6, 2012. Retrieved on May 7, 2012. (Arabic)
    19. ↑ Libya says 330,000 voters register for June poll . May 6, 2012 (English); Retrieved May 7, 2012.
    20. ^ Liberal Alliance wins election in Libya ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, July 18, 2012; Retrieved July 18, 2012.