Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi ( SINCE THAT DAY WE DIDNOT SEE AHAPPY DAY ) HE IS IN POWER FOR 40 YEARS NOW AND HE MIGHT STAY FOR ANTHER 40 YEARS .
The first president in Libya was ZAKIA HUSSAIN (180BC-280BC)
There was no President before Gaddafi. He overthrew King Idris I of Libya, a monarch.
There was no President before Gaddafi. He overthrew King Idris I of Libya, a monarch.
On 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris.
There wasn't a president but a king and his name was King Idris. King Idris had no male heir so he appointed his brother's son as his heir. Qaddafi led a coup to overthrow the King one single day before the brother's son was due to become King. That son, now known as a Prince, has indicated that he will be returning to Libya to help with the new government.
Libya was given back to it's previous ruler, King Idris. He later lost it when his Army, led by Colonel Gadaffi, overthrew him.
King Idris I (Libya was independent on December 24, 1951 after Allied occupation during World War II)
He came to power by launching a military coup d'etat, overthrowing his boss, the pro-Western Libyan King Idris I and became Libya's dictator.
In a bloodless coup on September 1, 1969, against King Idris.
King Idris I was born on March 12, 1889.
No, it does not. After independence King Idris took over, then 18 years later, power was seized by a faction of the army led by Moamar Gadaffi.
In September 1969, a small group of junior military officers led by Gaddafi staged a bloodless coup against King Idris while he was in Turkey for medical treatment. His nephew, the Crown Prince Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, had been formally deposed by the revolutionary army officers and put under house arrest; they abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the new Libyan Arab Republic.