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Libyans head to landmark national congress election
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July 7, 2012, Saturday
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LIBYANS headed to polls today for a national congress election, which is hailed as a milestone on the path toward democracy after the toppling of Libyan former leader Muammar Gaddafi in a months-long civil war.
Since 8:00 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), voters started to cast their ballots in polling stations across the North African country. The voting is set to end at 8:00pm local time (1800 GMT) today.
At a polling station in downtown Tripoli, hundreds of Libyans queued up, waiting for participating in the landmark election.
"I will vote for a political party named the State of Law," 21- year-old Noha told Xinhua.
The medical student could not help crying this morning, because "all the Libyans are waiting for the historic moment."
A 45-year-old man named Gamal said he cast his ballot for independent candidate Abdul Altomi. "The reason I choose him is that he is a legal staff and the national congress as a legislation body needs people like him."
Aiad Essa, a worker of the High National Electoral Committee, said 4,700 voters have registered to vote at the polling station, among them 2,138 women.
Head of the National Transitional Council (NTC) Abdul Jalil said today that the NTC, established during last year's civil war that toppled Gaddafi and currently ruling the North African country, will be officially dismissed after the results of the national congress election are published.
"Libya will turn from a stage of transition towards a phase of rebuilding," Jalil said in a speech aired by Al-Jazeera.
The 200-member national congress is expected to replace the NTC to supervise the government and oversee experts to draw up a new constitution.
In downtown Tripoli checkpoints were set up to secure the election, while the eastern part of the country is witnessing frequent bursts of violent acts against the polls.
Voting in Ajdabiya and Brega was suspended today, as arsonists had earlier set depots in the cities on fire, destroying electoral materials contained there, Al-Jazeera said.
Two-fifths of the seats in the new parliament will be reserved for political parties and groups that were banned under Gaddafi's rule, according to the final draft of the country's election law published early February. The rest will be allocated to independent candidates.
A total of 374 political entities and 2,639 individual candidates are contesting in the election.
According to statistics from the country's High National Electoral Committee, Libya has 3.4 million eligible voters out of a total population of over 6 million. More than 2.7 million people, or about 80 percent of the eligible voters, have registered to go to the polls.
Since 8:00 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), voters started to cast their ballots in polling stations across the North African country. The voting is set to end at 8:00pm local time (1800 GMT) today.
At a polling station in downtown Tripoli, hundreds of Libyans queued up, waiting for participating in the landmark election.
"I will vote for a political party named the State of Law," 21- year-old Noha told Xinhua.
The medical student could not help crying this morning, because "all the Libyans are waiting for the historic moment."
A 45-year-old man named Gamal said he cast his ballot for independent candidate Abdul Altomi. "The reason I choose him is that he is a legal staff and the national congress as a legislation body needs people like him."
Aiad Essa, a worker of the High National Electoral Committee, said 4,700 voters have registered to vote at the polling station, among them 2,138 women.
Head of the National Transitional Council (NTC) Abdul Jalil said today that the NTC, established during last year's civil war that toppled Gaddafi and currently ruling the North African country, will be officially dismissed after the results of the national congress election are published.
"Libya will turn from a stage of transition towards a phase of rebuilding," Jalil said in a speech aired by Al-Jazeera.
The 200-member national congress is expected to replace the NTC to supervise the government and oversee experts to draw up a new constitution.
In downtown Tripoli checkpoints were set up to secure the election, while the eastern part of the country is witnessing frequent bursts of violent acts against the polls.
Voting in Ajdabiya and Brega was suspended today, as arsonists had earlier set depots in the cities on fire, destroying electoral materials contained there, Al-Jazeera said.
Two-fifths of the seats in the new parliament will be reserved for political parties and groups that were banned under Gaddafi's rule, according to the final draft of the country's election law published early February. The rest will be allocated to independent candidates.
A total of 374 political entities and 2,639 individual candidates are contesting in the election.
According to statistics from the country's High National Electoral Committee, Libya has 3.4 million eligible voters out of a total population of over 6 million. More than 2.7 million people, or about 80 percent of the eligible voters, have registered to go to the polls.
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