Libya Constitutional Declaration of August 2011
الإعلان الدستوري لشهر أغسطس 2011
Summary
Issued by the National Transitional Council weeks before Qaddafi was killed, this is the document that has governed Libya in the transition that has never ended. It is short — 37 articles — and was meant as a 20-month bridge to a permanent constitution. Fifteen years later the country has neither held the constitutional referendum it called for nor reunified the legislative bodies that emerged from it. Both Tripoli and Tobruk authorities cite this document as their authority; both interpret it differently.
Impact
The legal source of the dual-government period. Every Libyan political dispute since 2014 routes through which provisions of this declaration the contesting party prefers to apply.
Sources
https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/ly-constitutional-declaration-2011 How to cite
This is a citation for the legislation itself — credited to Government of Libya and dated to its 2011 introduction. Tayyar is the retrieval surface, not the author. A separate "Retrieved via" line records that you accessed it through this dataset.
In-text: (Government of Libya, 2011) (Government of Libya, 2011)
APA 7Institutional author
Government of Libya. (2011). Constitutional Declaration of August 2011 [Legislation]. https://constituteproject.org. Retrieved via Tayyar (https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/ly-constitutional-declaration-2011) on June 21, 2026.
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Government of Libya. 2011. “Constitutional Declaration of August 2011.” Legislation. https://constituteproject.org. Retrieved via Tayyar, June 21, 2026.
BibTeXLaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-bill-ly-constitutional-declaration-2011,
title = {{Constitutional Declaration of August 2011}},
author = {{Government of Libya}},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-08-03},
type = {Legislation},
url = {https://constituteproject.org},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Retrieved via Tayyar (https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/ly-constitutional-declaration-2011) on June 21, 2026}
}