Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai

Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai (born 14 May 1952[citation needed]) is a Libyan politician who was the last Secretary General of Libya's General People's Congress and thus the country's nominal head of state from 2010[1] until 2011.

He was reportedly a longtime personal friend of Muammar Gaddafi and credited with first introducing Gaddafi to Abdessalam Jalloud, who was Libya's Prime Minister of Libya in the 1970s.

[3] In June 2013, Zwai was acquitted of wasting public money but remained incarcerated.

[2] In April 2017, Zwai was appointed advisor for Maghreb Affairs by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh Issa.

[2] In May 2018, Zwai was among the high-profile Gaddafi loyalists who declared their support for Khalifa Haftar at a forum in Benghazi.