Bashir al-Rabiti

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Bashir Mohammad Massoud al-Rabiti (Arabic: بشير محمد مسعود الرابطي) is a Libyan politician.

He grew up in the Al-Zahara neighbourhood in Tripoli.[1] He served as chairman of the Students Union, which organized university students in Tripoli and Benghazi as well as high school students across Libya.[1]

Al-Rabiti served as the speaker of the Confederal National Assembly (the parliament of the Federation of Arab Republics).[2][3] He replaced fellow Libyan politician M. Saghir in the position.[4] The Confederal National Assembly met twice a year, holding its first session in March 1972 and its last in October 1975.[5]

Al-Rabiti fled Libya after 1977.[1] In April 1982 he took part in the founding of the Libyan Liberation Organization in Mogadishu, Somalia.[6] He served as the chairman of the Central Committee of the organization.[7]

He later served as chairman of the Libyan National Organization.[1][8]

Al-Rabiti was a key member of the Cooperation Bureau for Democratic and National Forces, an Egypt-based anti-Gaddafi coalition.[9]

As of 2016, al-Rabiti was the chairman of the Libyan National Party.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Alwatan Libya. الوطن الليبية تحاور بشير الرابطي معارض سياسي قديم ورئيس حزب الوطني الليبي : الفيدرالية لها خيوط مؤامرة لتقسيم ليبيا
  2. ^ MEED Arab Report. Middle East Economic Digest Limited. 1976. p. 634.
  3. ^ The Middle East (87–98 ed.). International Communications. 1982. p. 9.
  4. ^ Maghreb, Machrek (61-66 ed.). La Documentation française. 1974. p. 54.
  5. ^ Europa Publications Limited (1978). The Middle East and North Africa. 25. Europa Publications. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-905118-23-9.
  6. ^ Mideast File. 1. Learned Information. 1982. p. 532.
  7. ^ African defence journal (17-28 ed.). The Journal. 1982. p. 92.
  8. ^ al-Ahrām al-iqtiṣādī. October 1985.
  9. ^ Arthur S. Banks; Alan J. Day; Thomas C. Muller (1 February 2016). Political Handbook of the World 1998. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 551. ISBN 978-1-349-14951-3.
  10. ^ Libya al-Akhbar. بشير الرابطي: ليبيا في خطر، ولا تحتمل المزيد

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