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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 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. | He has no official role in government but in the past four years he has come into the limelight internationally because of his interventions. |
| The situation has changed and if I continue there will be a problem Sayf al-Islam Gaddafi | |
| The BBC's Rana Jawad in the capital, Tripoli, says in an hour-long televised speech, Sayf al-Islam Gaddafi took some credit for the rehabilitation of Libya's reputation. | |
| "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 told a crowd in 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." |
| He said the decision-making process should not be held in the hands of a few people and again urged the creation of more civil societies, an independent media and a judiciary enshrined in a new constitution. | |
| These goals were the responsibility of all Libyans, he said, to a standing ovation in Sebha, where he was addressing a crowd of thousands of young supporters. | |
| Sayf al-Islam is one of seven of Col Gaddafi's sons. | |
| The Libyan leader's youngest son, Hannibal, has caused a diplomatic row with Switzerland after being charged with assaulting two of his servants last month. | |
| Libya's state shipping company halted oil shipments to Switzerland in protest. |