Libya polls open for historic post-Gaddafi vote‎

A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote in the National Congress election, in BenghaziTripoli, Libya – Libyans have started voting in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the toppling of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi amid fears of renewed violence in Libya.

Voters on Saturday are choosing candidates for a 200-seat National Assembly. The assembly will form a temporary government and draft a constitution, ahead of another election set for next year.


Polls opened at 8am local time on Saturday and will close at 8pm (1800 GMT) as the interim government, represented by the National Transitional Council (NTC), declared election day and Sunday national public holidays for voters to exercise their civic duty.


On Friday, a helicopter carrying election material from Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi was shot at in mid-flight, fatally wounding a member of Libya’s High National Election Committee (HNEC) logistics team onboard.


Security forces are on guard near polling centers to prevent any possible violence.

Some voters are turning up draped in the new Libyan flag with its red, green and black colors.


The poll has already been postponed once before.

 


The 2.8 million registered voters will elect a 200-seat General National Conference (GNC that will replace the unelected interim government that has ruled the country after the revolution against Libya

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