105 formed in accordance with the provisions of this Law, may be rallied around a general federation that shall have the legal personality." Law no (99) for 1976 on the Establishment of Public Syndicates and a General Federation for Craftsmen was issued. Codes establishing and regulating syndicates were subsequent until Law no (23) for 1428 on federations, syndicates and vocational associations and its Executive Regulation were issued. In assertion of the right to form syndicates, the Great Green Human Rights Charter in the Era of the Masses declared on 12/6/1988 has provided that: "Sons of the mass society are free to form federations, syndicates and vocational associations in protection of their professional interests." There are currently syndicates for professions and crafts respectively. The syndicate is formed first at the level of the basic people's congress, then at the level of the administrative division and later at the level of the Great Jamhirya. Syndicates with the same profession or craft are entitled to establish a general federation such as that of craftsmen, producers and the Great Jamhirya students. These federations are members in regional and international federations. Considering that the political system in Libya is based on the power of the people and that this power cannot be exercised beyond the scope of the Basic People's Congress which will have to be composed of members establishing it and who confer on its decisions the binding force for their implementation. These members are the citizens who reached the legal age of this membership. The outcome is that all syndicate members will have to be members of the basic people's congresses by virtue of the right to citizenship. This result emphasizes that the mass society in Libya or others is genuinely a civil society where there is no place for ruler and ruled, or for employer and employee, and that the so-called nongovernmental organizations operating under traditional political regimes are but organizations working outside the orbits of

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