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July 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mr Jibril’s NFA got less than 10 per cent of the vote.
Misurata, which withstood three months’ siege by Gaddafi forces, is controlled
by a powerful and self-confident militia and local council.
The result is likely to accelerate the city’s tendency to see itself as in
effect a separate, semi-autonomous republic within Libya. It will increase
fears of potential conflict with the central government.
The results so far represent only about 8 per cent of the 1.8 million votes
cast on Saturday. But they suggest that informal predictions – based on
individual polling-station tallies – of a moderate landslide may be accurate.
Mr Jibril, a former university teacher in Pittsburgh and economy minister
under Gaddafi, defected early in the revolution, becoming the rebel prime
minister. He dealt extensively with Western governments to secure their
support for the uprising.
At a late-night press conference on Sunday, Mr Jibril appealed for all parties
to “come together in one coalition, under one banner, to reach a
consensus on which the constitution can be drafted and the new government
can be composed.” He also fiercely rejected the Western labels of “liberal”
or secularist, stressing that Islam would be the main, though not the sole,
source of Libyan law.
The NFA has backpedalled on threats to sue the country’s most senior cleric,
Sheikh Sadiq al-Ghiryani, for issuing a pre-election fatwa against his
party.
Mr Jibril said the edict was a difference of opinion to which Sheikh Ghiryani
was entitled.
International observers praised the conduct of the elections yesterday, saying
that violent incidents and anti-voting protests in the east of the country
failed to prevent voters turning out in large numbers.
“It is remarkable that nearly all Libyans cast their ballot free from
fear or intimidation,” an EU monitor, Alexander, Graf Lambsdorff, told
a news conference. The violence, which cost two lives, “did not put
into question the integrity of the election as a whole,” he said.
Islamist parties responded cautiously to Mr Jibril’s call for a grand
coalition, but did not immediately dismiss it.
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