Wages, electricity and less corruption: the protest of the yellow vests, without bosses in the Libya of the clans

Throughout the night Tripoli’s presidential palace was surrounded by a crowd of protesters, others continued to march in the streets of Misrata and Zliten. What is happening in Libya surprises international observers because rather than resembling the dynamics of tribal power and factional clashes, it has the characteristic of a new “Arab Spring”: a popular uprising born of the economic crisis and discontent over the corruption of the class. politics.