Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai | |
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Secretary General of General People's Congress of Libya | |
In office 26 January 2010 –23 August 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Baghdadi Mahmudi |
Leader | Muammar Gaddafi |
Preceded by | Imbarek Shamekh |
Succeeded by | Mustafa Abdul Jalil (Chairperson of the National Transitional Council) |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 May 1952 |
Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai (born 14 May 1952[ citation needed ]) is a Libyan politician who was the last Secretary General of Libya's General People's Congress and thus the country's nominal head of state from 2010 [1] until 2011. He replaced Imbarek Shamekh as the GPC secretary general. He was reportedly a longtime personal friend of Muammar Gaddafi and credited with first introducing Gaddafi to Abdessalam Jalloud,who was Libya's Prime Minister of Libya in the 1970s. [2] As of 8 September 2011,he was in custody of the NTC forces. [3]
In June 2013,Zwai was acquitted of wasting public money but remained incarcerated. [4] In July 2015,he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was released in 2016 based on health grounds. [2]
In April 2017,Zwai was appointed advisor for Maghreb Affairs by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,Aguila Saleh Issa. [2]
In May 2018,Zwai was among the high-profile Gaddafi loyalists who declared their support for Khalifa Haftar at a forum in Benghazi. [5]
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