Bulletin n. 1/2013 | ||
June 2013 | ||
Buera Osama |
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The New Democratic Transition in Libya and the Aspirations of the Cyrenaican People | ||
in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXVI, n. 1, March , 2013 | ||
Two years have passed since the Libyan Revolution, but living conditions are still very poor and the provision of state services in various sectors has on average become lower even than during the period of Qaddafi’s corrupt government. So where is the stream of revolution going to stop? The Libyan federal state was initiated in 1951 under the supervision of the UN. It was based on the union of three independent regional states, each with its own constitution, parliament, and electoral legislation. Cyrenaica (the cradle of the most recent revolution) had strongly resisted both Ottoman and later Italian colonialism. It became totally liberated in 1948, was declared an emirate and as such was then recorded as the eighth Arab state. | ||