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Libya election results put liberal alliance first

July 17th, 2012

FILE - In this July 8, 2012 file photo, Mahmoud Jibril speaks to the media during a presser at National Forces Allies head quarter in Tripoli, Libya. Final Libyan election results show a secular, liberal alliance in first place in the nation's first free vote in decades. The election commission says Jibril's National Forces Alliance won 39 seats, while the Muslim Brotherhood's Justice and Construction party came in second with 17 seats among those allocated for parties. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)Final results released Tuesday placed a liberal alliance ahead of other parties in Libya's first free nationwide vote in half a century, leaving Islamists far behind, but each side is already trying to build a coalition with independents.

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