Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya

The PFLL follows a Gaddafi loyalist agenda. The party maintains that the First Libyan Civil War was the result of a conspiracy against Libya. It holds a negative view of the United Nations and NATO, which played a large role in overthrowing Gaddafi during the 2011 military intervention.{{Cite web |last=ITQAN |title=الأمم المتحدة جزء من المؤمراة على ليبيا والليبين |url=https://www.aljabhaalshaabiya.org/single-blog/1802 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير ليبيا |language=ar}} Its stated aim is to build a sovereign state and "liberate the country from the control of terrorist organizations that use religion as a cover and are funded by foreign agencies."{{Cite journal |last=McGregor |first=Andrew |date=November 2017 |title=Europe's True Southern Frontier: The General, the Jihadis, and the High-Stakes Contest for Libya's Fezzan Region |url=https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CTC-Sentinel_Vol10Iss10-18.pdf |journal=CTC Sentinel |volume=10 |pages=24}} It has run advertisements opposing Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War as well as the presidency of Fayez al-Sarraj.{{Cite web |last1=University |first1=© Stanford |last2=Stanford |last3=California 94305 |title=Blurring the lines of media authenticity: Prigozhin-linked group funding Libyan broadcast media |url=https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/libya-prigozhin |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=fsi.stanford.edu |language=en}} It opposes normalizing relations with Israel.{{Cite web |last=ITQAN |title=الفارس الليبي يكتب..محاولات الخونة للتطبيع مع الكيان الصهيوين |url=https://www.aljabhaalshaabiya.org/single-blog/822 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير ليبيا |language=ar}}

• 26 December 2016: the PFLL was founded.
• October 2017: the PFLL was defeated in clashes with the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade,{{cite web|url=https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/tripoli-revolutionaries-brigade-fights-gaddafi-loyalists-south-capital|title=Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade fights off Gaddafi loyalists south of the capital|work=The Libya Observer|date=4 October 2017|accessdate=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006200304/https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/tripoli-revolutionaries-brigade-fights-gaddafi-loyalists-south-capital|archive-date=6 October 2018|url-status=live}} leading to the arrest of the military leader, Al-Mabrouk Ehnish, on the 16th.
• March 2018: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi announced his intention to run in the 2019 Libyan general election under the PFLL.
• 6 July 2019: it was reported that the PFLL had joined the Libyan National Army in the 2019 Western Libya offensive.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uprising.today/tobruk-mp-claims-terrorists-from-turkey-support-tripoli-government-against-haftar-claims-terrorists-from-turkey-support-tripoli-government-against-haftar/|title=Tobruk MP claims terrorists from Turkey support Tripoli government against Haftar|date=2019-07-06|website=Uprising Today|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706203248/https://www.uprising.today/tobruk-mp-claims-terrorists-from-turkey-support-tripoli-government-against-haftar-claims-terrorists-from-turkey-support-tripoli-government-against-haftar/|archive-date=6 July 2019|access-date=2019-07-06|quote=There are also reports that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya, a pro-Jamahiriya resistance organisation led by Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, the son of Brotherly Leader Muammar al-Gaddafi who was overthrown and murdered in 2011, is supporting the Tobruk-based forces.|url-status=live}}
• 30 September 2019: the coordinator of the group's Ajdabiya branch, Ahmed Abdel Mawla, held a speech wherein he praised the Libyan National Army's advances against anti-LNA factions, re-affirmed the PFLL's support for Saif and denounced the 2011 uprising as a Turkish-Qatari conspiracy. He stated that "Since the conspiracy erupted in 2011, we see what happened in the homeland of the violation of sovereignty, and the loss of its political decision, and here we urge and stress that we all join together and all loyal to fight terrorism and uproot from the roots, these guilty of this era of heretical terrorists who destroyed the country, They destroyed everything."{{Cite web|url=https://www.jana-ly.co/en/in-memory-of-the-day-of-fulfillment-popular-front-at-ajdabiya-saif-al-islam-diagnosed-the-crisis-since-2011-the-last-solution-to-the-libyan-situation/|title=In memory of the day of fulfillment.. Popular Front at ajdabiya: Saif al-Islam diagnosed the crisis since 2011, the last solution|last=|first=|date=2019-10-01|website="وكالة الجماهيرية للانباء " أوج |language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-11-22}}
• 3 November 2019: PFLL members held a demonstration in Bani Walid, waving flags reminiscent of the green flag used during the reign of Muammar Gaddafi.{{Cite web|url=https://english.iswnews.com/8279/supporters-of-qaddafi-flag-rises-in-north-of-libya/|title=Supporters of Qaddafi Flag Rises in North of Libya|last=|first=|date=3 November 2019|website=english.iswnews.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104093319/https://english.iswnews.com/8279/supporters-of-qaddafi-flag-rises-in-north-of-libya/|archive-date=4 November 2019|access-date=4 November 2019}}
• 2020: In this year, the party was intended to be replaced by a new party titled Libya Tomorrow (Arabic: Libya Al-Ghad), though these plans did not bear fruit.
• 7 February 2020: the PFLL held a panel discussion in Tunisia, titled "Tunisia's role in resolving the Libyan crisis between foreign interventions and the depth of belonging", wherein party members discussed the security situation in Libya in light of the civil war and the proliferation of arms carriers, as well as fears of foreign military intervention in Libya, which would further complicate the situation, according to participants. The panel was attended by a number of Tunisian political parties.{{Cite web|url=https://arab24.com/portal/index.php/arab24-stories/tunis/item/18380-2020-02-08-10-05-01|title=Tunisia – Foreign intervention and civil war in Libya at the discussion table of political parties|last=|first=|date=8 February 2020|website=arab24.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223195212/https://arab24.com/portal/index.php/arab24-stories/tunis/item/18380-2020-02-08-10-05-01|archive-date=23 February 2020|access-date=2020-02-23}}
• 7 November 2020: the PFLL announced that it rejected the legitimacy of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum.{{Cite web|title=Who benefits from the Libyan political dialogue in Tunisia?|url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/oped/who-benefits-from-the-libyan-political-dialogue-in-tunisia--2733660|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The Citizen|date=7 November 2020 |language=en}}
• 31 July 2021: Saad al-Senussi al-Barasi, a PFLL leader, responded to an enquiry by Asharq Al-Awsat regarding circulated photos of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. He described the photos as authentic, and sceptics as "enemies of the nation, and those who cling to power."{{Cite web |title=Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's Statements Raise Suspicions |url=https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3107841/libya-saif-al-islam-gaddafi%E2%80%99s-statements-raise-suspicions |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Asharq AL-awsat |language=en}}
• 12 August 2022: Othman Barka, a representative of the PFLL in Egypt, stated he was in regular contact with Saif Gaddafi.

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.aljabhaalshaabiya.org Official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170312132101/https://libya360.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/founding-declaration-of-the-popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-libya/ Founding Declaration of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya]

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