Русская версияThe 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.
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.
The Libyan leader's oldest son 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.
"But now the situation has changed and if I continue there will be a problem."
(BBC)
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