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Breaking News Alert - Friday, August 10, 201 Libya Elects Former Gaddafi Rival New President
[ Libya elects former Gaddafi rival new president ] -
Libya's newly formed national assembly elected former opposition leader
Mohammed el-Megarif as the
country's interim president today, the latest move to establish a
democratically based leadership after decades of rule by deposed
dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
El-Megarif won 113 votes to defeat another opposition leader and human
rights lawyer, Ali Zidan, who won 85 votes from the 200-member General
National Congress, an assembly
created in the first nationwide election since Gaddafi's ouster and
killing last year. Both men had been diplomats who defected and fought
Gaddafi's regime while living in exile since the 1980s.
"This is a historic moment and no one is a loser," said Hussein
al-Ansari, an independent lawmaker speaking after the victor was
announced. "The two are nationalist fighters who battled the regime."
El-Megarif, who authored a series of books on..........
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