Libya joint list
National Forces Alliance
تحالف القوى الوطنيةLiberal-nationalist coalition led by Mahmoud Jibril (d. 2020) that won the most seats in the 2012 GNC election. Largely dormant today; included here as a historical anchor for post-2011 Libya's liberal current.
- Founded
- 2012
- Current leader
- Mahmoud Jibril (d. 2020)
- Founders
- Mahmoud Jibril and 58 affiliated parties / organizations
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Recent events
Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →
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NFA wins Libya's 2012 election, bucking the Islamist trend
In the 7 July 2012 General National Congress election the NFA took about 48% of the list vote and 39 of the 80 party-list seats, finishing ahead of the Muslim Brotherhood's Justice and Construction Party — a rare first-place finish for liberals in an Arab Spring election, though Libya's fragmentation soon eclipsed the result.
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Jibril launches the liberal National Forces Alliance
The National Forces Alliance (NFA), a liberal umbrella coalition pledging a "civil democratic" state, was created in February 2012, with former wartime prime minister Mahmoud Jibril elected its president on 14 March 2012 — assembling the main non-Islamist current of post-Qaddafi Libya.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Manifesto Arabic 2012-02-21 ميثاق تحالف القوى الوطنية (Charter of the National Forces Alliance)
ميثاق تحالف القوى الوطنية لإرساء دعائم الدّولة المدنيّة الدّيمقراطية … واستلهاماً لقيم العقيدة الإسلامية الوسطية السّمحاء والهوية اللّيبية المتجذّرة في أعماق التّاريخ، والمتميّزة بالتنوّع الثقافي في إطار وحدة الوطن. ……
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded February 2012 by Mahmoud Jibril; mostly dormant
- founders_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Mahmoud Jibril (1952-2020), wartime PM 2011
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). National Forces Alliance [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 5, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/nfa-ly
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "National Forces Alliance." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 5, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/nfa-ly.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-nfa-ly,
title = {{National Forces Alliance}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/nfa-ly},
urldate = {2026-08-05},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 5, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-05},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.