1. Ali Zeidan was appointed by the General National Congress on 14 October 2012, and took office on 14 November after Congress approved his cabinet nominees.
16 Facts About Ali Zeidan
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Ali Zeidan was ousted by the parliament committee and fled from Libya on 14 March 2014.
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Ali Zeidan was born in 1950, and grew up in the town of Waddan.
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Ali Zeidan served as a diplomat for Libya during the 1970s, serving in India under Ambassador Mohammed Magariaf.
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Ali Zeidan spent nearly three decades in exile in Geneva after the defection.
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On 7 July 2012, Ali Zeidan was elected as an independent congressman for Jufra in the 2012 Congressional election.
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Ali Zeidan ran for the position of Speaker of the Congress, but ultimately lost out to his former opposition colleague Mohammed Magariaf, obtaining 85 votes.
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On 10 October 2012, Ali Zeidan resigned his seat in Congress.
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Ali Zeidan was elected prime minister-designate by a vote of 93 to 85, with two weeks to submit his proposed new government for approval by Congress.
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Ali Zeidan was reported to have been supported by members of Congress belonging to the generally liberal National Forces Alliance, as well as by certain independents informally affiliated as the Workers group and the Southern group.
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Ali Zeidan's cabinet was approved by Congress on 31 October 2012, although six of its members were referred for investigation into alleged links to the former Gaddafi regime.
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Ali Zeidan was quoted as promising at his swearing-in that his government would abide by the Constitutional Declaration and "give its utmost best to the nation based on the rule of law, human rights, democracy, rights, and the belief in God, His Prophet and a state based on Islam".
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Ali Zeidan was kidnapped by armed militants from the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli during the early morning of 10 October 2013 and taken to an undisclosed location.
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Ali Zeidan was kidnapped again on 14 August 2017, by an armed group, being taken from a hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
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Ali Zeidan had promised to stop the departure, but failed.
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On 8 June 2014, the Maltese government denied a Maltese blogger's claim that Ali Zeidan was residing in Malta, under the protection of the Maltese government.