Episode 40 of Al-Ad Al-Aksi (The Countdown) Program discussed the issue of the possibility of returning to the constitution of monarchy in Libya, and the feasibility of implementing the 1969 constitution as a solution to Libya’s crises, in addition to the obstacles facing the system of the constitution of monarchy if it is adopted, with the program’s guests, Alaa Safi El-Deen, a Senussi family member, Tariq Mahmoud, researcher in political affairs, and Sami Al-Alam, coordinator of the National Initiative to Activate the Monarchy Constitution.
Sami Al-Alam said that all solutions proposed to the Libyan crisis are superficial, pointing out that Gaddafi did not abolish the 1969 constitution, but rather abolished the constitutional bodies, and this constitution is in effect until today.
Al-Alam added that the 1969 constitution is comparable to the European constitutions and one of the best constitutions in the world, and that the Libyan judiciary is the arbiter in the matter of the system of government, noting that the closure of the constitutional department impeded the challenge of the legality of the bodies present on the Libyan scene today.
He emphasized that the constitutional monarchy did not suppress parties, and that the parties that existed before it were liberation parties, recalling that Article 24 of the 1969 constitution allows the establishment of parties.
Tariq Mahmoud said that the monarchy and the royal constitution are the guarantors of the stability and unity of Libya, and that the constitutional monarchy may be a solution for a certain period of time, and then it can be extended or transferred to another system by a referendum of the people.
Mahmoud pointed out that the Senussi family is famous for its sacrifices and for what it has made historically, adding that the 1969 constitution guarantees the fulfillment of the demands of the federalists in Libya today.
Alaa Safi El-Deen Senussi said that the decisions of those in power today are improvised decisions because there is no constitution regulating their work, and that it is necessary to have a constitution regardless of its type, and the people are the ones who decide this constitution.
Senussi concluded by saying that the constitutional monarchy adopted in 1951 is closer to the constitutional monarchies that exist today in the West, and that the royal constitution does not grant the king absolute powers, but rather specific powers.
