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Muammar Gaddafi was Libya's dictator for 42 years. The question is how the country can put this era best behind it? (Photo: Martin Beek)

What Libya can learn from the Baltic states' constitutions

On 4 May 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic declared the restoration of the Republic of Latvia and the Satversme - the Constitution of Latvia.

The Satversme dated back 70 years to when it was adopted by the Constitutional Assembly in 1922.

Four articles were initially reintroduced before the remainder was reintroduced in 1993. Two years later, Estonia ratified its constitution, drawing on elements of the constitutions of 1920 and 1938.

Its r...

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Mitchell Riding is an analyst at CRI Group, a London based corporate intelligence consultancy.

Muammar Gaddafi was Libya's dictator for 42 years. The question is how the country can put this era best behind it? (Photo: Martin Beek)

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Mitchell Riding is an analyst at CRI Group, a London based corporate intelligence consultancy.

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