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July 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But despite a few flare-ups in the east, the election seemed to be starting
well, even though most of the nation is still controlled by disorderly
militias capable of wrecking it if they decide to fight for power instead of
accepting the outcome of voting.
Voters will choose a 200-member assembly from a field of 3,700 hopefuls, who
will elect a prime minister and cabinet before laying the ground for full
parliamentary elections next year under a new constitution.
Inside a school being used as a polling station in central Tripoli, a few
dozen women queued. Some carried the new Libyan flag on their backs or wore
jewellery in its red, green and black colours. Some had tears in their eyes.
A Libyan woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote to
elect Libya’s the General National Congress at a polling station in the
eastern city of Benghazi (AFP/GETTY)
“I am a Libyan citizen in free Libya,” said Mahmud Mohammed
Al-Bizamti, outside the polling station.
“I came today to be able to vote in a democratic way. Today is like a
wedding for us,” he said.
However, despite the hope of voters, chaos is never far away in today’s Libya.
“There is no security in this country,” complained Emad El-Sayih,
deputy head of the High National Election Commission.
In the isolated southern area of Kufra in the Saharan desert, tribal clashes
are so fierce that election observers will be unable to visit, and some
question whether the vote can proceed in certain areas there.
In Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, a former fishing village on the southern rim
of the Mediterranean Sea, the mood ahead of the polls was restrained, with
some saying they would not vote.
“They should take care of us first, look at our homes,” said Abed
Mohammed, a resident of District Two neighbourhood which saw some of the
heaviest fighting and where Gaddafi was believed to have hidden before being
captured and killed.
“We are not against elections in the future, but first things first,”
he said.
A woman casts her ballot in the election (AFP/GETTY)
The Justice and Construction offshoot of Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood is tipped
to do well, as is al-Watan, the party of former CIA detainee and Islamist
insurgent Abdel Hakim Belhadj.
Parity rules for the new assembly mean there are many female candidates. Yet
many of their campaign posters in Tripoli have been defaced, underlining the
ambivalence felt by some in Libyan society about a greater female role in
politics.
“Politics is a new field for men and women in Libya,” said Lamia
Busidra, 38, a leading candidate for the al-Wattan party in Benghazi.
“The qualifications are there, women can do it, they just need the
confidence in themselves to do it.”
Early partial results after polls close on Saturday night will give some guide
to the make-up of the assembly but full preliminary results are not due
until Monday.
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