Libyan moderate coalition wins election The results were welcomed in the West, with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the head of Nato, whose forces were crucial in removing Col Gaddafi, hailing the elections as "an impressive step forward." The NFA is seen to be at the more progressive end of Libya's political spectrum. It is led by technocrats who lived abroad and advocate a moderate Islam, economic liberalisation and openness to the West. Mr Jibril played a key role drumming up international support for the 2011 revolution that toppled Col Muammar Gaddafi's brutal and corrupt 42-year regime, But the party rejects the label of secularist and describes itself as a moderate Islamic political entity. The election outcome is unlikely to herald a new era of liberal reforms in a country where alcohol is already banned and most women are veiled. The new congress will however house at least 30 women, thanks to a system which obliged parties to alternate on their lists between male and female candidates. All the winners were unveiled in a grand ceremony late on Tuesday attended by Libyan officials including Mustafa Abdel Jalil, leader of the National Transitional Council, and interim prime minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib, as well as foreign diplomats. The main tasks of the new body are appointing a new interim government and steering the country for a roughly one-year transition period, until fresh elections can be held on the basis of a new constitution. There are fears that whatever power structure emerges will struggle to wrest control of security from hundreds of militias that have divided up the country. They have been accused by Amnesty International and others of detaining thousands of suspected Gaddafi sympathisers and frequently abusing, beating or torturing victims.