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Libya's National Transitional Council will scrap a plan to set a 10 per cent quota for women in its new parliament, a Western diplomat told Reuters on Friday.

In December, the NTC proposed an electoral draft law including plans for the quota and asked for comments. Around 14,000 emails came in, 80 per cent of which opposed the quota, including some from women's rights groups, the diplomat said.

A rule barring voting for people with multiple nationalities will also go, but the NTC will relax a ban on its own members running for office. Libyans with ties to Gaddafi will still be banned, as will academics who wrote about Gaddafi's political manifesto, his "Green Book".