National Forces Alliance
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National Forces Alliance
تحالف القوى الوطنية Taḥaalof al-qiwaa al-waṭaniyya |
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| President | Mahmoud Jibril |
| Secretary-general | Salaheddin El Bishari |
| Founded | February 2012 |
| Ideology |
Libyan nationalism Big tent Economic liberalism Liberalism |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colors |
Red, black, green |
| General National Congress |
39 / 200
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| Website | |
| http://nfalibya.org/ | |
The National Forces Alliance (Arabic: تحالف القوى الوطنية, Taḥaalof al-qiwaa al-wataniyya) is a political alliance in Libya. The alliance was created in February 2012. It includes 58 political organizations, 236 NGOs, and more than 280 independents. The alliance is of predominantly liberal tendency. It calls for "moderate Islam" and a "democratic, civil state".
NFA was created in February 2012. On 14 March 2012, the former wartime prime-minister, Mahmoud Jibril, was elected president of the alliance. NFA competed in the Libyan General National Congress election, 2012. It fielded 70 candidates across Libya. Bucking the Islamist trend set by the Muslim Brotherhood's victories in Egyptian and Tunisian elections, the NFA beat out the Justice and Construction Party (Muslim Brotherhood's political arm in Libya) to take first place. NFA received 48% of the popular vote and won 39 of the 80 party-list seats. It is also estimated that 25 of the 120 independents in the GNC are associated with the NFA. Two NFA deputies were subsequently removed from the GNC by the integrity commission due to them having served as officials under the Gaddafi regime. On 14 November 2012, NFA became the largest governmental political party.
The leader represents the alliance in the political conversations, parliament or others. The general secretariat acts like the alliance's governing body. Former interim prime-minister, Mahmoud Jibril is the leader of NFA. Abdul Rahman Al Shater was the secretary-general. As of October 3, 2012, the secretary-general is Salaheddin El Bishari.
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