AMMAN – On Tuesday, the parliamentary
joint committee (consisting of both the legal and administrative committees)
continued to discuss the Municipalities and
Decentralization bill for the year
2021.
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The draft law was referred to the panel by the
LowerHouse before it went into recess.
Deputy Ahmad
Al-Khalaileh, committee member and rapporteur, said that Tuesday’s session picked up
where last week's session ended. The lawmakers last week discussed the bill
with heads of municipal councils and members of governorate councils.
“Today we started the dialogue with the presidents of the chambers of
industry and commerce from all governorates,” he told
Jordan News.
Khalaileh
added that the work of the committee on the proposed law will continue for
around a month, explaining that the committee’s role at this stage is to listen
to the related various opinions and suggestions.
“Today's meeting
was useful and many points related to the bill were raised. The most important issue
raised was a demand by the heads of the chambers of industry and commerce to be
appointed as members in governorate councils,” the MP added.
The lawmaker anticipates that the Parliament will hold an extraordinary session,
a topic that has been discussed at several recent meetings. “We finished Amman
Municipality bill, and I expect to wrap up the municipalities and decentralization bill within a month, so I expect
holding an extraordinary session [to vote on] these bills and others,” he said.
The municipalities and decentralization bill is intended to increase
public participation in the decision-making process and to enroot the principle
of decentralization at the governorate level. This process will work, according to observers and participants in the dialogue, by delegating
some of the powers of the center and the mandates of certain governmental departments
to the governorates with their various councils.
Earlier, Parliament
Speaker Abdel Moneim Al-Awdat has commented that the House will take into
consideration relevant observations from stakeholders to come up with a law
that “bridges gaps, meets needs, and achieves the goals we aspire to."
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