Would Libyans bet on the shadow of a prince? (Back to Amun)
During the past ten years, during which Libyans searched for themselves, many answers emerged to the existential question that imposed itself after the overthrow of the global world order, the savior of humanity, which returned Libya to the ranks of the leading countries in the world: How will we build a state? What system should be applied?
The answers were repeated, Libyans tried to recall all the experiences they had gone through during the past years, in the hope that they would find what they were looking for and gather themselves together. Among these answers was a return (to constitutional legitimacy).
What is constitutional legitimacy?
The proponents of this vision say that what they mean by constitutional legitimacy is that we return and hand over the country to Crown Prince Mohammad A Hassan Arrida Asnussi, whose father is considered to be (Viceroy) Idris Asnussi, according to what he said during his resignation from his position when the Free Officers carried out their coup in 1969, and then left the country; in the meantime, King Idris Asnussi was outside Libya and did not take any action against this coup, preferred to remain silent, and spent the remainder of his life in self-imposed exile in Cairo, Egypt.
The second part of the concept of constitutional legitimacy is the return to the Kingdom’s constitution, this step is divided into two teams: a team that adopts the Kingdom’s constitution, which stipulates that Libya has three regions, and a team that adopts the amended Kingdom’s constitution, stipulating that Libya is one state, and the two teams raise the slogan of constitutional legitimacy.
The sought after Prince of Libya has recently begun several contacts with many Libyan figures across the country, from Misurata, members of the Supreme Council of State, academic figures, and figures with social and financial weight within the first capital of Libya, Istanbul! The young prince did not present any clear vision for his plan in Libya, or to solve the deep problems within society and the state.
Many believe it to be normal, amid the chaos in which the country is living, for some to call for the return of the monarchy. Perhaps it will be a point that Libyans of all sects can rally around, as happened in the past, but the question here is -
Is the situation as it was before? Were Libyans during the Kingdom’s era the same as Libyans today?
Those who oppose the feasibility of calling for the return of the monarchy believe that there is no longer a basis from which to start this claim, given that Viceroy Hassan Arrida abdicated his position of his own free will; this did not happen, for example, in Egypt, where King Farouk left Egypt following the day of the coup, and did not abdicate the throne to anyone. If someone from his dynasty calls for the return of royal Egypt, he may have merit in his claim, but Mohammad Al Hassan Arrida, son of Al Hassan Arrida, the relinquishing Viceroy, cannot find any logic for his claim in his capacity as Prince Mohammad A Hassan Arrida (the legitimate one)?!
Those who hold this opinion believe that this plan has ended, and if Mr. Mohamed Arrida wants to enter the race for the presidency of Libya, he can do so without the cloak of the Kingdom of Libya, which has become part of Libya’s political heritage, just as Libya is today after the changes it has undergone at the political and societal levels and the balance of power in Libya's demographics, and the demands of the legitimate Libyan ethnic races, there is no longer room for the Libyan Kingdom plan to accommodate all these variables. Therefore, those who hold this opinion believe that this plan has expired.
On the other hand, there are those who believe that the fact that Libya is ruled by a family the praises of which the entire people sing day and night, and which inherit the rule of the people solely based on their genes, is an idea that is no longer conceivable in light of the state of great openness in ideas that Libya and the world in general are experiencing, as it is no longer possible this generation would accept the idea of (human gods) and that people have the right to engage in public affairs, and to participate in determining who manages their affairs, and the fact that such administration is not sacred and is not protected from criticism and the demand to change it if conditions worsen, as there are many Libyans despite the current bad situation still cling to the idea of the possibility of establishing a civil state based on a constitution approved by the people, that sets the controls of the ruling authority that moves through it, far from the idea of individual gods.
Libyans are still searching inside the sands of Libya for what they want, how they will live together, and who they are? and what is the political system that they will decide? This is why many Libyans believe that whoever wants to present himself to them must be within the sands of this land, and not address them from the city of fog where the cold kills everything that is hot, and that he should not assume the role of the god Amun, which the ancient Libyans believed in; for he who looks back too much would not see the future clearly…