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Soueili said civil society groups and local councils should also have a former rebel representation of 40 percent, 10 percent women and 10 percent from the Amazigh Berber, Toubou and Tuareg minorities.<\/p>\n
“The council is not representative enough … The question is being discussed (with the authorities), but it’s going to happen,” said Al-Bahlul Essid, one of the conference organisers.<\/p>\n
He said was it was not a question of dissolving the NTC but enlarging it.<\/p>\n
The former fighters are also demanding the dismissal of several NTC members accused of being “opportunists” or collaborating with the former regime, another delegate, Mohammed Khfayer from Al-Bayda in the east, told AFP.<\/p>\n
The conference delegates also decided to create a committee of 25 officers from the country’s former army to choose a new chief of staff, after Abdel Jalil called on them to come up with a list of candidates.<\/p>\n
This new chief “must come from the ranks of the traditional army because this is a military position,” Abdel Jalil said.<\/p>\n
The committee will meet in Misrata on January 1, and has already been sent dozens of applications, said Khfayer, himself an officer in the previous army.<\/p>\n
“He must have proved himself on the ground, not slept under the air conditioning while we were fighting without knowing whether we would come back alive,” Khfayer said of the new army chief.<\/p>\n
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