Basic People's Congress (other)
Basic People's Congress is a term related to the former Libyan political system. It can refer to one of the following: *Basic People's Congress (administrative division), the geographic district *Basic People's Congress (political) The Basic People's Congress, or Fundamental Popular Council ( ar, مؤتمر شعبي أساسي, translit=Mu'tamar shaʿbi asāsi), was the smallest unit of government in Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the ...

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Muammar Gaddafi became the ''de facto'' leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of young Libyan Army officers against King Idris I in a bloodless coup d'état. After the king had fled the country, the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) headed by Gaddafi abolished the monarchy and the old constitution and established the Libyan Arab Republic, with the motto " freedom, socialism and unity". After coming to power, the RCC government initiated a process of directing funds toward providing education, health care and housing for all. Public education in the country became free and primary education compulsory for both sexes. Medical care became available to the public at no cost, but providing housing for all was a task the RCC government was unable to complete. Under Gaddafi, per capita income in the country rose to more than US$11,000, the 5th highest in Africa. The increase in prosperity was accompanied by a controversial foreign policy, and there was incr ...
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Basic People's Congress (administrative Division)
Basic People's Congress ( ar, مؤتمر شعبي أساسي, Mu'tamar shaʿbi asāsi) was the smallest administrative division in Libya under the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Geographically it corresponded approximately to the level of a township or borough. During Muammar Gaddafi's rule, political caucuses and committees of the Basic People's Congress operated at this level.Vandewalle, Dirk J. (1998) ''Libya since independence: oil and state-building'' I B Tauris, London, pp. 95-97, Representatives from the Basic People's Congresses regulated operations at the higher shabiyah (district) level. In July 2013 the shabiyat and Basic People's Congress system was replaced with a new baladiyat system of ninety-nine first-level administrative divisions Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic na ...
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