Roads to Iraq

Accord­ing to the leaked copy of the Libyan new draft con­sti­tu­tion (first edi­tion), that Libya after Gaddafi will be a demo­c­ra­tic none-central State . The pres­i­den­tial term will not exceed four years to be renewed once, with the exis­tence of fed­er­al­ism rule for some provinces.

The four papers called the “Call for the Tran­si­tional National Char­ter” high­lights the rea­sons and cir­cum­stances which led to the rev­o­lu­tion. In the first arti­cle the draft explains that Libya is an inde­pen­dent state, a demo­c­ra­tic decen­tral­ized coun­try, Islam is the reli­gion, and the prin­ci­ples of Islamic law (Sharia) is the source of legislation.

The sec­ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and sev­enth arti­cles of the draft con­sti­tu­tion are gen­eral prin­ci­ples and clichés that guar­an­tee free­dom of opin­ion, the press and the media. there are also men­tions to the free­dom to estab­lish polit­i­cal par­ties, unions and associations.

The eighth arti­cle, is the estab­lish­ment of Par­lia­ment (or semi-Parliament – maybe the idea is based on Islamic Shura Coun­cil) under the name “The Supreme Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil” solely respon­si­ble for the issu­ing laws.

Regard­ing the gov­ern­ment, the ninth arti­cle is: Libya’s civil­ian gov­ern­ment is headed by a civil­ian Prime Min­is­ter with an exec­u­tive author­ity respon­si­ble to the Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil (Par­lia­ment) (This means that the Par­lia­ment intended to have more pow­ers than the government).

Arti­cle 13 of the draft, is that Libya’s future will be the admin­is­tra­tive provinces have the legal rights to adopt an auton­omy sys­tem (this is the only ref­er­ence to the fed­er­a­tions system)

P.S.

It is very clear that draft is designed so that the Islamists will dom­i­nate the Par­lia­ment (and prob­a­bly, the head of the State), leav­ing a weaker Prime Min­is­ter post to the secular.