LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

ELECTORAL SYSTEM
 
Chamber:
  Mutamar Al Sha'ab Al Aam
 
Electoral Law:
  19 April 1984
 
 
Constituencies:
  (not applicable)
 
Voting System:
  Indirect voting for the 468 members who are situated at the top of a pyramid-like system which has as its basis some 2,000 basic people's congresses existing throughout the country. These congresses appoint popular committees to execute policy. Provincial and urban affairs are handled by these committees responsible to municipal people's congresses, of which there are 13. Officials of these congresses and committees form at the national level the General People's Congress - the highest policy-making body in the country.
 
Voter requirements:
  - age: 18 years
- Libyan citizenship
 
Eligibility:
  - age: 18 years
- Libyan citizenship
- secretaries of the General People's Congress, of the municipal people's congresses, or of the general vocational, production and craft people's congresses, or assistant secretaries of the branch municipal congresses.
 
Incompatibilities:
  (data unavailable)
 
Candidacy requirements:
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