Two women are among 120 unaffiliated candidates who have won seats in Libya’s National Assembly, the nation’s first free election following the end of Muammar Qaddafi’s 42-year rule.
Mahmoud Jibril’s moderate National Forces Alliance won 39 of the seats, about half of those set aside for party-affiliated candidates in the 200-member National Assembly. The assembly is due to pick a prime minister and cabinet before full parliamentary elections next year. Jibril is calling for all parties to hold talks on forming a national unity coalition to help rebuild Libya.
“I am so disappointed women did not vote for women,” Sherezade Magrabi, founding director of the Libya Women’s Forum, said in an interview this week in Tripoli. “I think they all voted for Jibril because they did not want the Islamists to win.”
Read the complete story in Bloomberg, published 18 July 2012.
Two women are among 120 unaffiliated candidates who have won seats in Libya’s National Assembly, the nation’s first free election following the end of Muammar Qaddafi’s 42-year rule.
Mahmoud Jibril’s moderate National Forces Alliance won 39 of the seats, about half of those set aside for party-affiliated candidates in the 200-member National Assembly. The assembly is due to pick a prime minister and cabinet before full parliamentary elections next year. Jibril is calling for all parties to hold talks on forming a national unity coalition to help rebuild Libya.
“I am so disappointed women did not vote for women,” Sherezade Magrabi, founding director of the Libya Women’s Forum, said in an interview this week in Tripoli. “I think they all voted for Jibril because they did not want the Islamists to win.”
Read the complete story in Bloomberg, published 18 July 2012.