Since 2011, Libya has been increasingly described as politically, militarily and territorially fragmented, lacking a strong central authority and solid national political and military institutions. The intervention, indeed, crystallised the localisation of armed groups making the revolution more of a local rather than a national liberation struggle. In the aftermath of the 2011 revolution, political parties and alliances started to emerge in an attempt to develop the structures necessary for a representative democracy to function. In the second legislative election in 2014, the political parties’ quota was removed and only independents were allowed to run. ‚Libya 10 Years After the 2011 Revolution: A Democratic Transition Unfulfilled‘ – Commentary by Karim Mezran and Alice Alunni – Italian Institute for International Political Studies / ISPI.

Source: Libya Today February 23, 2021 06:33 UTC