Tribal and family ties and their impact on the constitutional and parliamentary system In the Kingdom of Libya 1952-1964

Abstract

The research revolves around the tribal and family ties and the impact of these ties on the constitutional and parliamentary system in the Kingdom of Libya 1952-1964 AD. The Senussi movement tried to organize the tribes that lived in the Cyrenaica region, which did not know anything about political organization. order to organize those tribes that were refusing to submit to any authority except the authority of the tribe. The research also deals with the private internal meetings of the king with the tribal sheikhs. Those meetings that were not written in the constitution were a semi-miniature government of trusted advisors and close to the tribal sheikhs, in addition to a group of city-dwelling sages who were chosen for their loyalty to the monarchy. The researcher also deals with the parliamentary elections in 1952 and the role of the tribe in voting for candidates. It was characterized by tribal and innate loyalty, and it is natural for its members to side with government candidates who belong to their tribes against the opposition party in that period, as well as tribal and family ties after those elections, and the elections that followed that period.