National Transitional Council
2011–2012 de facto government of Libya
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- NTC
- Predecessor
- General People's Congress of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Successor
- General National Congress of Libya
- Formation
- 27 February 2011
- Dissolved
- 8 August 2012
- Type
- Provisional authority
- Purpose
- Deliberative assembly / deliberative democracy
- Headquarters
- Tripoli
- Location
- Libya
- Official language
- Arabic
- Chairman
- Mustafa Abdul Jalil
- Vice chairman
- Mustafa Honi
- Prime minister
Article
The National Transitional Council (NTC) was a transitional government established in the 2011 Libyan civil war. After rebel forces overthrew the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya of Muammar Gaddafi in August 2011, the NTC governed Libya for a further ten months after the end of the war, holding elections to a General National Congress on 7 July 2012, and handing power to the newly elected assembly on 8 August.
The formation of the NTC was announced in the city of Benghazi on 27 February 2011 with the purpose to act as the "political face of the revolution". On 5 March 2011, the council issued a statement in which it declared itself to be the "only legitimate body representing the people of Libya and the Libyan state". An executive board, chaired by Mahmoud Jibril, was formed by the council on 23 March 2011 after being de facto assembled as an "executive team" since 5 March 2011. The NTC issued a Constitutional Declaration in August 2011 in which it set up a road-map for the transition of the country to a constitutional democracy with an elected government.