AMMAN — Head of the Parliamentary
Legal Committee Abdel Moneim Al-Awdat said on Sunday that the committee “will
start discussing, from next Tuesday, the draft elections and parties laws",
according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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At a committee meeting, Awdat said that
a series of meetings will be held by several members of the Royal Committee to Modernize
the Political System’s secretary-generals of political parties, representatives
of political forces, experts and specialists, “to sound views and proposals and
obtain the highest level of national consensus".
Member of the committee Suleiman
Al-Qallab said that the Sunday session was expected to draw up a roadmap to
deal with the two laws” as a matter of urgency".
"A reasonable time to discuss
the two laws means that we will not rush and will not extend talks, and each
law will be granted ample time for it discussion," he said.
The
Ministry of Political and Parliamentary Affairs said on Saturday that there is a movement toward forming
new parties, following the recommendations of the Royal Committee to Modernize the
Political System.
Several parties applied for registration,
according to the general secretary of the ministry, Ali Al-Khawaldeh, who said
that some parties had applied "before the formation of the Royal
Committee, and the rest after last June, that is, after the establishment of
the committee".
"At least 41 seats are reserved
for political parties in the upcoming parliamentary elections, so the party
arena will undoubtedly see a movement," he said.
Royal Committee to Modernize the
Political System’s Political Parties' Committee Adnan Sawair said it is premature to expect a parliamentary government very soon, since the
draft law on parties is in "phase one", and the number of parties,
through the national lists, in the next House of Representatives will be 30
percent, "a percentage that does not constitute a majority”.
Independent Election Commission mandate
must be amended
Chairman of the Board of
Commissioners of the
Independent Election Commission (IEC), Khaled Al-Kalaldeh,
said that the IEC only deals with enacted legislation and executes laws under
its mandated constitutional functions, noting that its name would have be
changed to become “independent election and parties commission” to be able to
handle political parties’ issues.
In a statement to Al-Rai, Kalaldeh
said that the Commission would wait for the constitutional amendments to be
published in the official gazette before they become applicable to political
life practices.
Kalaldeh said in order for the IEC
to address political parties affairs, the IEC Law would have to be amended to
align with the constitutional item that was annexed to Article 67, stating that
“the IEC has been entrusted with considering applications for the establishment
of political parties and following up on its affairs.”
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