Libya's provisional council leaves many problems

Almost one year after the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi, Lybia's National Transitional Council has officially transferred power to the National Congress, the country's first freely-elected parliament. The liberal conservative daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung gives a generally positive assessment of the Transitional Council: "It promised elections, and it held them just a little later than originally planned. It resisted temptations to benefit from its mandate and secure places for its members in parliament. So although it leaves the National Congress with a mountain of unsolved problems, at least it has not also bequeathed it a gang of exhausted and discredited politicians. ... The work of the National Congress will not least be measured by its success in avoiding clientelism and turning the Libyans into citizens who see themselves not as clients of the government but as responsible participants in the state, endowed with rights and obligations."

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