LIBYA - The Government.

APS Review Downstream Trends, July, 2007

Libya is administered by a 500-strong General People's Congress (GPC), equivalent to a national assembly which in March 1977 replaced the once ruling Revolution Command Council (RCC). The executive arm of the state chozen by the GPC is the General People's Committee (cabinet) headed by a secretary-general (prime minister). Most of its secretariats (ministries), however, have been subjected to frequent change. In 2000, most secretariats including that of energy were abolished. Although the energy secretariat was revived in March 2004 under Omar Fathi bin Shatwan, it was abolished once again in March 2006.

The powers of qualified technocrats declined from 2000 to 2004 in favour of popular committees headed by figures close to Qadhafi's often varying "inner...

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