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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