In a run-off vote he narrowly beat Mahmoud Jibril - who served as interim¹ PM following the uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi last year.

 

Mr Shagur is a respected optical engineer with a long history of opposition² to Col Gaddafi.

 

He has pledged to make security a priority during his 18-month tenure³.

 

Mr Jibril comfortably won the first round of the vote, with 86 to 55 votes. But in the run-off, Mr Shagur won 96 votes, two more than Mr Jibril.

 

Mr Shagur's victory was in part due to the support of deputies from the Muslim Brotherhoods⁴' Justice and Construction Party, AFP news agency says.

 

The election came a day after the killing⁵ of the US ambassador to Libya, and three others, in an attack on the consulate⁶ in the country's second city, Benghazi.

 

Mr Shagur studied at the University of Tripoli before moving to the US, where he earned a PhD and worked as an academic and optical engineer.

 

He returned in 2011 to become an adviser⁷ to the National Transitional Council, which was formed during the revolt that ousted⁸ Gaddafi.

 

Last November, he was appointed deputy to Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib.

 

The 200-member national assembly was elected in July, in the first free polls in decades.

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