Libyan Revolutionary Command Council

Revolutionary Command Council
مجلس قيادة الثورة
Formation1 September 1969
Dissolved2 March 1977
TypeActing Presidency
Collective leadership
Legal statusDissolved by the proclamation of Jamahiriya. Replaced by the GPC.
HeadquartersTripoli, Libya
Region served
Libyan Arab Republic
Chairman
Muammar Gaddafi
AffiliationsPresidency of Libya
Libyan Army
Parliament

The Revolutionary Command Council (Arabic: مجلس قيادة الثورة) was the twelve-person governing body that ruled the Libyan Arab Republic after the 1969 Libyan coup d'état by the Free Officers Movement, which overthrew the Senussi monarchy of King Idris I. The council's chairman was Muammar Gaddafi, who had the most influence and served as Libya's de facto head of state as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. It was ideologically Arab nationalist, republican, anti-imperialist and pan-Arabist.

In 1977, the Libyan Arab Republic was abolished and Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was established. As a part of this, the RCC was officially abolished and replaced by the general secretariat of the General People's Congress.


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