Baladiyat of Libya
The Baladiyah (singular), or baladiyat (plural), is the intended second-level administration subdivision of Libya being reintroduced in 2012 by the General National Congress with Law 59 on the system of local administration, dividing the country into governorates (muhafazat) and districts (baladiyat), with baladiyah having local councils. As the proposed governorates have not been created, the 22 districts continue to serve as the primary administrative divisions of Libya.
Baladiyah is an Arabic word used in many Arab countries to denote administrative divisions of a country.
History
Baladiyat were first introduced in Libya in 1983 to replace the governorate system. The ten existing governorates were replaced with forty-six baladiyat,[1] but in 1988 that number was reduced to twenty-five baladiyat. In 1995 they were replaced by shabiyat. For Libya, the baladiyat are usually known in English as "districts" and sometimes as "municipalities", but the municipal level under the baladiyat and subsequent shabiyat systems was the Basic People's Congress. After the fall of Gaddafi and the transfer of government from the interim National Transitional Council to the elected General National Congress, the previous shabiyat and Basic People's Congress system was deemed inappropriate, and a revised system was authorized with governorates (muhafazat) as the primary division and districts (baladiyat) as their subdivision, with baladiyat having local councils.[2][3] This was implemented in part by the Council of Ministers with resolution No. 180 in July 2013, creating the baladiyah.[4] There were originally ninety-nine baladiyat listed for Libya,[5] but by March 2015 that number had grown to 108.[6] The first-level administration subdivisions, the governorates (muhafazat), have yet to be created[7] due to a vested interest in maintaining decentralized governance, and the continuing civil war.[8]
1988
The table hereunder lists the old twenty-five baladiyat in alphabetical order with a link to each one and numbered to be located on the map. Note that each district linked may be both a baladiyah and a shabiyah. The many changes may not always be reflected in the linked article.
| Number | Name | Region |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ajdabiya | Cyrenaica |
| 2 | ‘Aziziya | Tripolitania |
| 3 | Butnan | Cyrenaica |
| 4 | Fati | Cyrenaica |
| 5 | Jabal al Akhdar | Cyrenaica |
| 6 | Jufra | Fezzan |
| 7 | Khoms | Tripolitania |
| 8 | Kufra | Cyrenaica |
| 9 | Nuqat al Khams | Tripolitania |
| 10 | Wadi al Shatii | Fezzan |
| 11 | Ubari | Fezzan |
| 12 | Zawiya | Tripolitania |
| 13 | Benghazi | Cyrenaica |
| 14 | Derna | Cyrenaica |
| 15 | Ghadames | Tripolitania |
| 16 | Gharyan | Tripolitania |
| 17 | Misrata | Tripolitania |
| 18 | Murzuq | Fezzan |
| 19 | Sabha | Fezzan |
| 20 | Sawfajjin | Tripolitania |
| 21 | Sirte | Tripolitania |
| 22 | Tripoli | Tripolitania |
| 23 | Tarhuna | Tripolitania |
| 24 | Yafran | Tripolitania |
| 25 | Zlitan | Tripolitania |
2013
Below is a list of the 99 baladiyat in Libya as created July 2013.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Districts of Libya". Statoids.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ^ "للقانون رقم 59 لسنة 2012 ميلادية بشأن نظام الإدارة المحلية" [Law No. 59 for the year 2012 AD on the local administration system] (PDF) (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ Bader, Mahmoud (April 2014). "Is Local Government in Libya the Solution?". Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Archived from the original on 17 July 2014.
- ^ "قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم 180 لسنة 2013 ميلادي بإنشاء البلديات" [Council of Ministers resolution No. 180 for the year 2013 AD the establishment of baladiyat] (PDF) (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ a b "الكشف المرفق بقرار مجلس الوزراء رقم 180 لسنة 2013 ميلادي بإنشاء البلديات" [Appendix Council of Ministers resolution No. 180 for the year 2013 AD the establishment of baladiyat] (PDF) (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-24. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ "اسماء البلديات" [The names of the baladiyat] (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. 26 March 2015. Archived from the original on 13 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Shanks, Tracy and Chemonics International Inc. (3 July 2014). "Libya Public Financial Management System Reform" (PDF). Asia Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices Project (AMEG). pp. 5–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2015.
- ^ Vandewalle, Dirk (2015). "Libya's Uncertain Revolution". In Cole, Peter; McQuin, Brian (eds.). The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-19-025733-0.