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2012.
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IN LIBYA, the supreme power in October 2011 passed into the hands of the National Transitional Council (NTC), which declared the country's liberation from Muammar Qaddafi's dictatorship.
With his removal the authoritarian model he called Jamahiriya ("state of the masses") lost its top leadership. The social and political system, crafted specifically for the leader, had ensured the governability and development of a vast country with a small population and riven by tribal loyalties as a single state for 42 years.
In autumn 2011, the NTC published a Roadmap for Democracy in Libya with a 20-month countdown to an election for a Constituent Assembly to adopt a new Constitution and other laws. After the Assembly's election, NTC is to be dissolved.
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107102
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2011.
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FOR OVER FOUR MONTHS now, Libya has been torn apart by violence and the civil war: the East with the center in Benghazi no longer obeys Qaddafi who still retains his grip on the west (Tripoli, capital of the Jamahiriya, and parts of Misrata, the rest of the city being held by the insurgents). For about 42 years, the colonel has ruled a vast country now split into two approximately equal parts divided by a belt of deserts and semi-deserts. Nearly the entire 6 million-strong population lives in cities aligned along the Mediterranean coast at the very brink of the desert sands.
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