106 power – be it legislative or the executive – and thus are more like organizations opposed to the decision of the power concerned and not partner of it. Therefore what is going on in Libya is categorically different from what is taking place in these countries, since undivided power belongs to the people of the basic people's congresses made up of citizens who, by virtue of their professions or crafts, are but members of their syndicates. Thus the syndicate and the people's congress are formed into the same fabric and revolve in the same orbit that is of the people's power. The syndicate then is in partnership rather than in opposition. Syndicate secretaries are members of people's congresses that are not cardinal which collect and formulate decisions of basic congresses, and those secretaries-general of syndicates and federations at the level of the Great Jamhirya are members of the People's General Conference where decisions of people's congresses are assembled and drafted. Hence syndicates, truly speaking, forge as the second springboard of the power of the people.

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