Mahmud Turkia / AFP - Getty Images -Members of the Libya national assembly cast their votes Thursday in Tripoli to choose their president.
By Reuters
TRIPOLI -- Libya's ruling national assembly picked Mohammed Magarief, leader of the National Front party, as its president on Thursday in a vote carried out a day after it took power from the outgoing National Transitional Council.
Magarief, a long-time opponent of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi, will head the 200-member congress, which will name a prime minister, pass laws and steer Libya to full parliamentary elections after a new constitution is drafted next year.
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