2012: LWPP Successful Electoral Law Initiative

In December 2011, the National Transitional Council drafted a controversial election law that was criticized for its exclusivist patriarchal tribal mind-set. The LWPP joined with other organizations to protest the election law. LWPP also identified legal experts to form an independent committee tasked with producing an inclusive electoral law to guarantee equal representation of women and men.

The committee proposed an electoral law based on "zipper lists," or political party election lists that alternate vertically and horizontally between male and female candidates. The initiative was adopted and was successful. Libyan women won 16.5 percent of the positions (thirty-three seats, of which thirty-two were acquired through party lists) in the first elected National Congress in fifty-two years.