The 1969 Libyan Constitutional Proclamation (also translated as a Constitutional Declaration) was brought into force on December 11, 1969 by the
Revolutionary Command Council, in the name of the
Arab people
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of the
Libyan Arab Republic
Muammar Gaddafi became the '' de facto'' leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of young Libyan Army officers against King Idris I in a bloodless coup d'état. When Idris was in Turkey for medical treatment, the Revolutio ...
. The proclamation would remain in force until the adoption of the
interim constitution on August 3, 2011.
Provisions
The declaration legally established the Revolutionary Command Council as the supreme
executive
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and
legislative
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authority in the country. The declaration was to remain in force until the completion of the "Nationalist Democratic Revolution", when it would be replaced by a permanent constitution. However, this never occurred,
and the declaration was eventually suspended and replaced by another
interim constitutional declaration after the
2011 Libyan civil war
The Libyan civil war, also known as the First Libyan Civil War and Libyan Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya that was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel groups that were ...
.
See also
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External links
Text of the Constitutional Proclamation
References
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Defunct constitutions
Constitutions of Libya
1969 documents