(VOVworld) – Libya’s internationally-recognised parliament on Monday revoked a law which banned senior officials of Muammar Gaddafi’s era from taking part in Libyan politics.

Officials who served under late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had faced a ban from public life.

The Political Isolation Law was repealed after a poll attended by 101 members in the House of Representatives. Tariq al-Jeroshi, one of Libya’s lawmakers, said that the law had been passed under duress in 2013, when parliamentarians were being besieged by armed groups in Tripoli, and was therefore invalid.
According to Libya’s political transition plan, the House of Representatives, elected in June, 2014, was supposed to replace the General National Congress (GNC). However, the armed Islamist alliance Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) has backed the GNC to form its own government, forcing the House of Representatives and its government to move to Al-Beida, 1,200 kilometres from Tripoli.