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BBC: Libya's NTC to hand power to newly-elected assembly
Mustafa Abdul Jalil has been running Libya
since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi
Libya's interim National Transitional Council is set to hand power to a newly-elected assembly, almost a year after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.
The NTC, which was formed during last year's revolt, will then be dissolved.
The change marks the first peaceful transition of power in Libya's modern history. The assembly was elected on 7 July in the country's first free and fair polls in decades and is a mixture of independent candidates and political parties.
Former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi came to power in 1969 and ruled autocratically for more than four decades, until he was toppled and killed last year. Prior to this year's polls, the last national vote was held in 1965, when no political parties were allowed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19183300
Wish Libyans well for their future. Don't know much about Jalil but anyone who relinquishes power to an elected successor government can't be all bad. Some "interim" leaders in the past have been reluctant to pass their power on to others.