Libya parliament gets two women MPs

Tripoli: Two women are among 120 unaffiliated candidates who have won seats in Libya’s National Assembly, the nation’s first free election following the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule.

The results, subject to a two-week appeals process before they are certified, were reported by the Higher National Election Commission at a press briefing in Tripoli. “I am so disappointed women did not vote for women,” Sherezade Magrabi, founding director of the Libya Women’s Forum, said in an interview this week in Tripoli. “I think they all voted for Jibril because they did not want the Islamists to win,”