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| Gaddafi son retires from politics | Gaddafi son retires from politics |
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| The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has announced his retirement from political life. | The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has announced his retirement from political life. |
| Sayf al-Islam Gaddafi has been a leading proponent of reform through his charity, The Gaddafi Foundation. | Sayf al-Islam Gaddafi has been a leading proponent of reform through his charity, The Gaddafi Foundation. |
| He said he had been obliged to intervene politically, but this was no longer necessary as Libya now had institutions and systems it had lacked. | He said he had been obliged to intervene politically, but this was no longer necessary as Libya now had institutions and systems it had lacked. |
| He has previously denied reports he was being groomed to take power and said there was no rift with his father. | He has previously denied reports he was being groomed to take power and said there was no rift with his father. |
| He has no official role in government but in the past four years he has come into the limelight internationally because of his interventions. | |
| "I intervened extensively in everything: our foreign policy, in a lot of problems, in development, in housing. Because there were no institutions or an administrative system that were able to do so," he said in an hour-long televised speech from the desert town of Sebha. | "I intervened extensively in everything: our foreign policy, in a lot of problems, in development, in housing. Because there were no institutions or an administrative system that were able to do so," he said in an hour-long televised speech from the desert town of Sebha. |
| "But now the situation has changed and if I continue there will be a problem." | "But now the situation has changed and if I continue there will be a problem." |