The Right Direction; Libya's Election  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8791 (Jun. 2012), page 51.
Topik: Geographic Profiles; Democracy; Political Parties; Trends; Elections; Government

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Libyans will go to the polls on July 7th, less than nine months after Muammar Qaddafi's death, to elect a national congress that will in turn choose a government and a committee to draft a constitution that should be ready in another four months. Next year Libyans will elect a full-blown parliament under the new rules. Despite outbreaks of violence, especially on the country's wilder fringes, plus the lingering menace of militias that are loth to submit to a central authority, the democratic process has been muddling along in the right direction. According to the election commission, 142 parties have been registered and 83% of the 3m-plus Libyans eligible to vote have put their names on the roll, from a population of around 6m. Eighty members of the 200-seat congress will be chosen from party lists, and the other 120 will be elected as individuals. If recent elections elsewhere in the Arab world are a guide, the Islamist group closest to the Muslim Brotherhood should have a good chance. This is the Justice and Development party, a studiously moderate lot, led by Muhammad Suwan. Even as the electoral process steadily advances, worries persist about insecurity, attitudes to the law, and tendencies to flout the central authority. Building respect for the law, after 42 years of Qaddafi's bizarre rule, will be the hardest task.

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