Libya's Jibril sees elections within eight months Saturday, 22 October 2011 14:47

Libya's National Transitional Council premier Mahmud Jibril addresses the opening session of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting by the Dead Sea in Jordan on October 22, 2011. King Abdullah II called in his inaugural speech for creating new strategies for the Arab region, insisting political change is needed for economic reforms.( Khalil Mazraawi)

DEAD SEA, Jordan: Libyans should be allowed to vote within eight months to elect a national council that would draft a new constitution and form an interim government, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said on Saturday.

For now, the priority was to remove weapons from the country's streets and restore stability and order, Jibril said at the World Economic Forum in Jordan.

"The first election should take place within a period of eight months, maximum, to constitute a national congress of Libya, some sort of parliament," he said.

"This national congress would have two tasks -- draft a constitution, on which we would have a referendum, and the second to form an interim government to last until the first presidential elections are held," said Jibril.

Meanwhile, in Misrata Military commanders said Saturday that no post-mortem would be carried out on the body of Moamer Kadhafi despite concerns over how the ousted strongman died.

"There will be no post-mortem today, nor any day," Misrata military council spokesman Fathi al-Bashaagha told AFP.

"No one is going to open up his body."

His comments were confirmed by two other Misrata military commanders. (Reuters/Tom Pfeiffer with reports from AFP)