The death of Mahmoud Jibril was not a passing event of a limited nature that affects the social environment closest to the man, but it was a loss of the size of a homeland that came in a historical circumstance in which the country needed men of thought and politics in its battle to establish the foundations and rules of the state on a faltering road filled with obstacles and difficulties surrounded by a system inherited from authoritarianism, legitimizing power, and random planning and management.
Removal of the constants in the Libyan scene constituted a complex task that requires elite roles to balance the societal environment in harmony with the status quo and a comprehensive renaissance vision that emulated the necessities of the time and achieved the minimum level of development and civil peace to practical reality.
Mahmoud Jibril tried to present a comprehensive economic and development approach that contributes to lifting the Mediterranean country with its distinguished geopolitical presence, apparent financial abundance, and promising human and economic potentials, from its reality based on oil revenues, public sector corruption and central power, to prospects for economic development parallel to building the human being that Jibril always considered the corner stone of any economic proposal.
The beginnings of Jibril’s vision for the Libyan state appeared in the project of Libya of tomorrow, through which the previous regime tried to reproduce itself at various levels, with a comprehensive development perspective that transcends years of economic and institutional stagnation and stagnation, and is in harmony with the political openness to the world after years of estrangement and isolation, a project in which it was transferred.
Jibril, with others, had his experiences in planning and institutional management, in a comprehensive plan adopted by the previous regime before it sidelined it with the intensification of the internal conflict within the corridors of the Gaddafi regime between the old and new guards to neglect all aspects of the comprehensive renaissance plan, and the regime returns to its socialist economic rules and its totalitarian intellectual premises hostile to any proposal based on market tools and openness to the requirements of the modern era.
A failure that shocked Gabriel, who did not hide the effects of disappointment after Gaddafi threw the plan for tomorrow’s Libya, clinging to his vision and his unilateral idea, for the February 17 revolution to form a new start and a brilliant opportunity to implement a development vision for the state after the removal of its most important obstacles and the openness of the Libyan people to global experiences and their orientation towards formulating a new social contract.
There was a lot of positive atmosphere for which the deceased was enthusiastic, so he managed the Executive Office with remarkable competence and succeeded in giving the revolution and the will for change an additional impetus, taking advantage of his distinguished presence in the corridors of thought and decision-making circles around the world.
Despite the fall of the regime, the leadership of the divided Libyan society was the most important challenge in any renaissance project that clings to the tools of modernity and the contexts of free thought with a religious heritage that is deliberately subjugated in other than its contexts and presents forcibly as the best solution to the Libyan reality, for the Libyans to pass through the tunnel of religious fundamentalism after they were confined for decades to the socialist-communist thought that produced the failure.
Jibril confronted the clash with a modernist proposal based on liberating the national economy from the dominance of the public sector and encouraging investment through a radical modernization of laws and reducing employment in the public sector by encouraging banking facilities and developing individual initiatives using renaissance experiences, especially the successful experiences in the state of Singapore, which formed a model for economic governance and modernization of priorities and achieved Remarkable development rates in record times.
Jibril called for supporting Libyan ports and air ports and focusing on transit trade in a country that occupies a vast area bordered by six countries and overlooks the Mediterranean, which is the most vital trade gateway around the world, and the creation of job opportunities based on sustainable development that stems from the urban and rural spatial gatherings that It addresses overcrowding in cities and alleviates the impact of the “city-state”, which Jibril has long criticized in reference to the accumulation of population and resources in large cities such as Tripoli and Benghazi.
A development project and a confident vision supported by leading global models that have succeeded in changing stubbornly fundamentalist thought, which saw in Jibril an imminent danger to unipolar project, so atonement was the most ready and most used tool in the literature of these organizations that spared no effort in stripping the man’s ideas and cutting them out of their contexts and bringing them down as a house of doubt and atonement so that Jibril represented the front of civil society in Libya that tried gathering his diaspora into a party formation was always considered the popular nucleus of the civil current in the country; However, Jibril died, and the country lost that bright intellectual flame that had always believed in man, so that the country would enter the furnace of a political conflict that lost the compass of development and construction, and its lost elites were distributed after his departure in polarization and confusion.
