Libya has a New President and a Parliment

Seems like they could have done worse than this guy. At least the guy is not a fanatic fundamentalist.

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s newly formed national assembly elected former opposition leader Mohammed el-Megarif as the country’s interim president on Friday

El-Megarif, who authored a series of books on Gadhafi’s repressive policies, lived as a wanted fugitive for years, and was the leader of the country’s oldest armed opposition movement, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. The movement made several attempts to end Gadhafi’s 42-year rule, sometimes by plotting assassination attacks including a well- known and daring 1984 assault on Bab al-Aziziyah, the late dictator’s fortified compound in Tripoli.

The regime cracked down on the group, executing and arresting many of its members. Many fled abroad where they worked as political activists. El-Megarif’s movement organized the first Libyan opposition conference in London in 2005 and called for the overthrow of Gadhafi’s regime at a time when other groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, accepted Gadhafi’s outreach to the opposition.

Upon his return to Libya after last year’s armed revolution, he formed a new party, the National Front, which sees Islam as a broad guideline to the state’s affairs, but does not mention the implementation of Islamic Sharia law.

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