Day after bloodshed, Libya has a new PM

September 13, 2012 09:15

Libya's parliament elected a leading member in the country's oldest opposition movement to be its new prime minister.

Mustafa Abu-Shakour is tasked with stabilising a country where armed groups proliferate. Washington's ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed during a late Tuesday attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

Abu-Shakour, deputy to Libya's outgoing interim Prime Minister, is considered a compromise figure acceptable to both Islamists and liberals.

He is the first elected head of government since the ouster and slaying of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in last year's civil war.

He hails from the National Front Party, an offshoot of a longstanding anti-Gadhafi movement that includes both Islamist and secular figures. He narrowly beat liberal Mahmoud Jibril by 96 votes out of 190.

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