2 March 1977Basic People's Congress SystemMuammar Gaddafi
Local popular congresses become the stated foundation of Libya's new governmental structure.
Historical records for Libya in 1977, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Local popular congresses become the stated foundation of Libya's new governmental structure.
The General People's Congress adopts the declaration reorganising Libya as a Jamahiriya.
The Jamahiriya formally assigns local decision-making to basic popular congresses.
The General People's Congress becomes the highest formal institution of the new Jamahiriya.
Gaddafi becomes secretary-general of the institution coordinating the Jamahiriya's formal state bodies.
Gaddafi proclaims the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as a mass-state.
Informal revolutionary institutions retain decisive authority over the formal people's congress system.
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