The new General National Congress

The fake oakley free shipping new General National Congress will replace the unelected National Transitional Council, the caretaker authority run by dissidents and rebel chiefs who led the battle to oust the longtime dictator last year. The body's primary task will be to draft a new constitution, a process that is likely to last around six months. It is meant to give the oil-rich nation of six million people a road map to dismantling the centralized power structures built by Gadhafi, which favored certain tribes and regions and neglected others. The assembly will have total governing authority over the country's oil wealth, infrastructure, foreign policy and security until the constitution eyeglasses 2012 is approved in a national referendum, which will decide the structure of a new government. The assembly's power comes with a poisoned barb: It will also inherit the lawlessness, dysfunctional state institutions and outdated state-run enterprises that were the hallmark of Gadhafi's economy. Frustration with the economy and politics has led to isolated acts of violence, such as in Ajdabiya, in eastern Libya, where suspected arsonists burned a local ecs012915 election office.