TRIPOLI -- Early results from Libya's first election since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi show Islamist parties failing to secure the same grip on power as counterparts in neighbouring countries where the Arab Spring also toppled veteran rulers.

But while partial tallies from Saturday's national assembly poll point to a lead for Mahmoud Jibril, a moderate who was the wartime rebel prime minister, that does not mean the new Libya will jettison its socially conservative brand of Islam.

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