Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)

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The Revolutionary Command Council (Libya) was the supreme governing body established after the 1969 coup that brought Muammar Gaddafi to power, overseeing the country’s political and military direction during the early years of his rule.

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instanceOf collective head of state
revolutionary council
supreme governing body
alsoKnownAs Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
surface form: Libyan Revolutionary Command Council

Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
surface form: RCC (Libya)
appliesToJurisdiction Libya
cameToPowerBy 1969 Libyan coup d'état
capital Tripoli
chairman Muammar Gaddafi
composition young military officers
constitutionalStatus supreme authority of the Libyan Arab Republic
country Libya
dissolved 2 March 1977
endTime 1977
2 March 1977
establishedBy Free Officers Movement (Libya)
surface form: Free Unionist Officers Movement (Libya)
followed Libya
surface form: Kingdom of Libya
governed Libya
governmentType military junta
revolutionary government
headOfGovernment Muammar Gaddafi
headOfState Muammar Gaddafi
historicalEra Cold War
ideology Arab nationalism
Arab socialism
Third International Theory
surface form: Third International Theory (early roots)

anti-imperialism
pan-Arabism
revolutionary socialism
leader Muammar Gaddafi
legalForm de facto government
member Abd al-Munim al-Huni
Abdul Salam Jalloud
Abdullah al-Hijazi
Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr
Awad Ali Hamza
Bashir Humeidi
Ibrahim Bakr
Khweldi Hameidi
Moustafa Kharroubi
Muammar Gaddafi
Omar Abdullah al-Meheshi
Umar al-Muhayshi
memberCount 12
officialLanguage Arabic
politicalPosition authoritarian
military regime
region North Africa
replaced monarchy of King Idris I
replacedBy General People's Congress (Libya)
Jamahiriya system
role executive authority
legislative authority
supreme military authority
supreme political authority
significantEvent abolition of Libyan monarchy
expulsion of US and British military bases from Libya
introduction of revolutionary committees (predecessor structures)
nationalization of foreign oil interests
proclamation of the Libyan Arab Republic
startTime 1 September 1969
1969

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Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution governingBodyContext Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
Leader of the Revolution relatedConcept Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
this entity surface form: Revolutionary Command Council of Libya
General People's Congress (Libya) subordinateTo Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
Revolutionary Command Council (Libya) alsoKnownAs Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
this entity surface form: RCC (Libya)
Revolutionary Command Council (Libya) alsoKnownAs Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
this entity surface form: Libyan Revolutionary Command Council
1 September Revolution headOfStateAfter Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
Free Officers Movement (Libya) afterCoupTransformedInto Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
Free Officers Movement (Libya) followedBy Revolutionary Command Council (Libya)
this entity surface form: Libyan Arab Republic leadership under Gaddafi