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Senate Of Libya
The Parliament of the Kingdom of Libya was the bicameral legislature of the Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969. It consisted of the lower house, the House of Representatives, and the upper house, Senate. The legislature was established in the 1951 Constitution, and abolished following the 1969 coup d'état by Muammar Gaddafi. Senate The Senate was the upper house of the parliament. Initially there were 24 senators, eight of each of the three provinces of Libya. Half of the senators were appointed by the King of Libya, the other half were chosen by provincial legislative assemblies. After 1963, when the King abolished the federal system, the King appointed all senators. The term of senators was eight years. The Senate was led by a president appointed for two-year terms. Senate Presidents * Mahmoud Bu Hedma, ?-1959-1960-? *, 1961-1968-? House of Representatives The House of Representatives was the elected lower chamber. The members were elected by secret ballot in general elect ...
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Bicameral
Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate Deliberative assembly, assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single group. , roughly 40% of the world's national legislatures are bicameral, while unicameralism represents 60% nationally and much more at the subnational level. Often, the members of the two chambers are elected or selected by different methods, which vary from Jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction to jurisdiction. This can often lead to the two chambers having very different compositions of members. Enactment of a bill, Enactment of primary legislation often requires a concurrent majority—the approval of a majority of members in each of the chambers of the legislature. When this is the case, the legislature may be called an example of perfect bicameralism. However, in many parliamentary and semi-presidential systems, th ...
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Abdul Majid Kubar
Abdul Majid Kabar (; Arabic: عبد المجيد كعبار / ''ʿbd āl-Mağid Kaʿbār'' ) (9 May 1909 – 4 October 1988) was a Libyan politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Libya from 26 May 1957 to 17 October 1960. He was of Circassian origin. Career Kabar worked his way up in Tripolitanian politics until he was appointed a member of the National Constituent Assembly in 1950. In the 1952 Libyan general election General elections were held in Libya on 19 February 1952 to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament,
, its first, he entered parliament and served as the house speaker until he became prime minister in 1957. A financial scandal centred on the cost of a road being built from Fezzan to Sabha led to his downfall. Originally cost $5.3 million and scheduled to be completed in three years, the cost o ...
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Defunct Bicameral Legislatures
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1969 Disestablishments In Libya
1969 (Roman numerals, MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – USS Enterprise fire, An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. * January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. * January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separ ...
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1951 Establishments In Libya
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ...
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1967 Libyan General Election
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle (Vietnam), Iron Triangle. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. * January 23 ** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. ** Milton Keynes in England is ...
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1965 Libyan General Election
Early general elections were held in Libya on 8 May 1965 to elect members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament,Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p527 following the dissolution of parliament by King Idris after the 1964 elections. As political parties were banned, all candidates ran as independents. In order to ensure the victory of pro-government candidates, ballot boxes were tampered with by police. References {{Authority control Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ... Elections in Libya 1965 in Libya Non-partisan elections May 1965 in Africa ...
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1964 Libyan General Election
General elections were held in Libya on 10 October 1964 to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament of the Kingdom of Libya, Parliament. 103 members were elected by universal suffrage introduced by the 1963 constitutional changes, which also increased the number of MPs from the 55 elected in 1960 Libyan general election, 1960. Reported turnout at the elections was 70%. Following the 1952 Libyan general election, 1952 elections political parties had been banned, so all candidates contested the election as independents. Although its spokesmen were arrested, the opposition managed to obtain representation in parliament. As a result, King Idris of Libya, Idris dissolved the Assembly and 1965 Libyan general election, early elections were held the following year. References

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1960 Libyan General Election
General elections were held in Libya on 17 January 1960 to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p527 Conduct The country was divided into 55 constituencies for the election.Keesing's Contemporary Archives, p17344 The majority of constituencies were contested by two or more candidates, although as political parties were banned at the time, all candidates were independents. It was the first election in which secret balloting was used nationwide, as previously it had been confined to urban areas. Results Prime Minister Abdul Majid Kabar and all other ministers were re-elected, but the Speaker of the House Salim al-Qadi lost his seat. Following the elections, al-Qadi was appointed Minister of Education, replacing Bubakir Naama, who became Governor of Tripolitania. Ahmed al-Hasairi replaced Ibrahim Bin Shaban as Minister of Defence, wh ...
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1956 Libyan General Election
General elections were held in Libya on 7 January 1956 to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p527 The House of Representatives had 55 seats, one for every 20,000 inhabitants.The Statesman's Year-Book, 97th edition, p1211 Following the 1952 elections, political parties and political gatherings had been banned, so all candidates contested the election as independents. As a result, voting was based largely on personality, clan ties, and nepotism.Libya: the struggle for survival
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Thirty candidates were elected unopposed.


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1952 Libyan General Election
General elections were held in Libya on 19 February 1952 to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament,The Libyan economy: economic diversification and international repositioning
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except in three constituencies in , where the elections were delayed until March after rioters destroyed the electoral register on election day."Police Open Fire In Libya Election Disturbances", ''The Times'', 21 February 1952, p6, Issue 52241 They were the first elections in the country's history."Polling In Libya To-Day First Election, Western Bases As ...
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