Libyans to Vote for Constitutional Drafting Committee
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Libyans will directly elect a committee to write the country’s new constitution, lawmakers said, reversing a decision requiring parliament to carry out the task.
The decision by the 200-strong General National Congress was taken in a vote in late yesterday in Tripoli, its spokesman, Omar Hmaidan, said in a telephone interview. A total of 87 of the 97 lawmakers present voted in favor of the move, he said.