The Libyans attitudes towards democratic transition during the period from 2012 to 2014

Abstract EN

Libya has witnessed a democratic transition process since the early months of 17th February Revolution, 2011.However, after eight years, there is still a gap in the literature about this topic.

Thus, this study aims to fulfil a part of this gap by describing and analyzing the Libyan attitudes towards the democratic the transition process in Libya post Kaddafi era during the years, 2012-2014.

Currently, the Libyans view themselves as participants in the democratic process that Libya is enjoying since August 2011, when the declaration of the liberating of Libyan was announced by the President of the Interim Transitional National Council “ITNC” in Benghazi.

The findings of this study demonstrate that the Libyans are no longer view themselves as belonging to parochial or subjective political cultures; and therefore, the rate of registration on the 7thof July 2012 election reached 93%, whereas the ratio of the actual voting reached 65% of the total eligible voters.

The negative attitudes towards Kaddafi’s regime have changed into positive patterns after the victory of 7thFebruary Revolution.

These positive attitudes towards participation culture are spilled over towards the new political system as well as its internal and external policies.

Nevertheless, negative attitudes towards issues that threat the national identity have been reported as the majority of the participants rejected federalism as a political system for the new Libya.

The findings also indicate that issues related to Amazigh language, liberal democracy and forgiveness with Kaddafi’s supporters before the interim-justice takes place were also rejected by a large portion of the sample.