Electoral authorities were finalizing the vote count on Monday from Libya’s first free polls in decades

Electoral authorities were finalizing the vote count on Monday from Libya's first free polls in decades as an architect of the revolt that toppled Moammar Gaddafi called for national unity talks.
  
Mahmud Jibril of the National Forces Alliances, which is expected to do well based on preliminary unofficial figures from the weekend election for a national assembly, called for all parties to come together.
  
"We extend an honest call for a national dialogue to come all together in one coalition, under one banner... to reach a compromise, a consensus on which the constitution can be drafted and the new government can be composed," said the NFA leader.
  
"There was no loser and winner at all. Whoever is going to win, Libya is the real winner of those elections," Jibril added.
  
His remarks came hours after the leader of the rival Justice and Construction Party, Mohammed Sawan, admitted the NFA had an early lead in the vote count for the capital and Libya's second-largest city of Benghazi.
  
"The National Forces Alliance achieved good results in some large cities except Misrata," he added.
  
The spokesman for Jibril's coalition in Benghazi said initial information indicated it had garnered the most votes in the east.
 
But Jibril said the NFA, which he described as a nationalist movement with a broad spectrum of identities and ideologies, would wait for and abide by official results.
  
Libyans on Saturday voted for a General National Congress, a 200-member legislative assembly which will steer the country through a transition. Turnout was above 60 percent, the electoral commission said.
  
Votes are still being tallied with preliminary results expected by Monday night or early on Tuesday, according to the electoral commission, although observers say the count could take another four or five days.