The National Forces Alliance, of Jibril, wins in the Islamic strongholds of Derna and Tobruk. The coalition is ahead of the Justice and Construction Party of the Muslim Brotherhood. Islamists hampered by the population that considers them to be manipulated by outside forces. In the coming days, the data on Tripoli and Benghazi, major cities across the country.

Tripoli (AsiaNews) -  The National Forces Alliance, a coalition of liberal parties and candidates led by former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril is the first political force in Libya after Gaddafi. This is what has emerged from the first data of the elections for the Constituent Assembly which took place on July 7. The party of the former leader of the National Transitional Council has defeated the Justice and Construction Party, of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the cities of Tobruk and Derna, hitherto strongholds of Islamists, who instead won ha Sabhi. Data on Tripoli and Benghazi will be announced in the coming days.

According to analysts, Jibril has benefited from his leading role in the fight against Gaddafi. The Libyans consider him the right man to entrust the country, especially for his contacts in the upper echelons of the economy.

Despite the predictions of yet another victory for the Islamists, self-proclaimed advocates of the fall of Gaddafi, the Muslim Brotherhood have collected few votes, and in many cases, their campaign has been hampered by the population. Local sources explain that in this election, the Libyan nationalist spirit has emerged. The Islamists or the "bearded ones", as they are called, arouse suspicions among people who consider them too closely tied to their Egyptian allies.

The Jibril's success did not however translate into an automatic majority in the Assembly. In fact, the candidates in party lists were reserved only 80 seats out of 200. The remaining will go to the independents and the experts expect a real battle between nationalists, liberals and Islamists, who rely on individual preferences to win in Cyrenaica, the birthplace of the revolt against Gaddafi.

Abu Bakr Abdel-Gader, an independent candidate for the District of the Western Mountains, points out that the Islamists have made him many offers to join them. "I refused", he says, "I didn't fight the revolution and collect the blood of the martyrs just to allow the Islamists to take power and isolate ourselves from modernity." "The Libyans", he continued, "are ready to experiment with democracy and have a moderate and liberal worldview."

 

 

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