TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The last time Libyan Nuri Baryun cast a ballot in a general election was nearly half a century ago. He never dreamt it would take him this long to vote again – or be quite so complicated. Libyans will pick a new temporary assembly on Saturday whose task will be to name a prime minister and prepare for full parliamentary polls in 2013, starting a new era after the uprising last year that ended Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule. It is the North African country’s first genuinely free national election in 60 years. …
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Veteran voter bemused at new Libyan democracy
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