Libya's General National Congress (GNC) has voted on a successor to former GNC President Mohamed Magarief, who resigned last month after being affected by the new political isolation law. Nuri Ali Abu Sahmain is now the new President of the General National Congress, and therefore Libya's new head of state until the drafting of a new constitution.As the Libya Herald reports:
Representing the town of Zuara near the border with Tunisia, he is the first member of minority Amazeigh community to achieve a leadership role in Libya since Sulaiman Barouni became the President of the short-lived Tripolitanian Republic in 1919.
Abu Sahmain, an independent member of the GNC, was also the top choice candidate for GNC President among Members of Congress aligned with the Justice and Construction party.