Libyans will return to polls this year to elect a Constituent Assembly, Congress decides

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[url]http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/02/06/congress-opts-for-an-elected-constitutional-commission/[/url]

[quote]The Constitutional Commission is to be elected in a national vote, not appointed by the General National Congress.

Congress made the decision in its morning session today, Wednesday. According to the GNC’s spokesman, Omer Hemidan, the decision was supported by 87 of the 97 members attending the session.

Controversy has raged for the past eight months over how to select the Commission’s 60 members — 20 each from Libya’s three historic provinces: Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan.[/quote]

There's been a whole lot of cockwang about this, lots of delays. It was probably inevitably going to be elected, but they sure dragged their feet in making it happen.

I imagine the only reason they've sorted it out now is because of the upcoming 15 February demonstrations - a likely-to-be-huge round of protests marking the second anniversary of the uprising, and 'hurry up with this shit' was going to be one of their main demands.