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Constitutional Path in Libya
Bahey El-din Ayman

Within the framework of a series of discussion panels organized by With regard to the constitutional course in Libya, Libya has
the Center for Research and Political Studies and Intercultural emerged from a political dispute that has resulted in a chapter of
Dialogue at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Cairo the Arab Spring and has many labels as some call them (uprising,
University on political and constitutional developments in the Arab civil war, revolution... (It ended with Muammar Gaddafi being
countries, the Center organized a discussion on the subject of the removed from the picture and charting the way for new
constitutional process in Libya, hosting the Counselor Dr.: Mohamed Governments and other authorities. The legal organizer of these
El-Ghannam the President At the Cairo Court of Appeal and former periods is called the Constitutional Declaration, which is
Director of the Political Department of the United Nations Support essentially an Egyptian invention. As a constitutional practitioner, I
Mission in Libya, on Thursday, June 3, 2021, through Zoom. have not seen it in other countries. I grew up in Egypt and moved
to a number of neighboring Arab countries, and we kept it in one
Chancellor and Dr. Mohamed Ghannam way or another. In Sudan, there is a constitutional document
He worked for a long time at the United Nations in its missions in governing the transition period, they called it a constitutional
Somalia and in Iraq, but his most notable work before returning to document, but within the framework of a constitutional declaration,
the ground, To the Cairo Court of Appeal, is the presidency of the the constitutional document is a legal document for the conduct of
political and constitutional path of the United Nations Mission in the transition. This constitutional declaration in Libya thus
Libya, It has played an important role, particularly in our topic regulated the (harsh) transitional period in Libya.
today: the constitutional path of Libya and the completion of the
draft constitution, which unfortunately has not yet been ratified. His Unfortunately, the 2011 constitutional declaration is the Libyan
role was the most prominent of all non - Libyans. constitutional document. This document states that there is an
Chancellor Mohamed Ghannam: I would like to thank Cairo election for the drafting body of the Constitution, which consists of
University for this opportunity. I didn’t have much opportunity to 60 members from the three political provinces, Of course, Libya
talk about my United Nations experience. I worked at the United has historically consisted of three political territories, the Western
Nations for 11 years. From 2005 to 2011, they were on loan from Province (Tripoli), the Eastern Province (Beni Ghazi) and the
Egypt, and I am currently President of the Cairo Court of Appeal. I Southern Province. In 1951, prior to the United Nations'
have worked in the constitutional, legal and political spheres in a recognition of the State of Libya, there was a King of Libya who
number of missions and States and have concluded them in Libya. refused to assume power without the ratification of the
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Libya's experience was a final one for me, and then I returned to the Constitution. In 2011, with the Constitutional Declaration, such a
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Egyptian judiciary. It was a very difficult one. I worked in Libya 60-member commission was established for each province, with
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from 2013 to the end of 2016. Part of it was inside Libya in Tripoli, little difference, that three Libyan ethnic minorities were given
and I moved to a number of Libyan cities, and then there was an seats, in the sense that two seats were given for each of the three
evacuation to Tunisia. I was also working on the Libyan political minorities, six seats. (10% of seats), and it was stipulated that these
agreement, known as the (sofaraa Agreement), which took place in minorities should be compatible with matters relating to it, which is
Morocco and was between the two rival groups in Libya, and it was a slightly loose text. The Commission was therefore elected.
signed at the end of 2016.
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