AMMAN —
The
Hayat Center for Civil Society Development (Rased) said that 24 parties out
of 55 it polled nominated a member for the upcoming municipal and provincial
council elections, according to Al-Ghad News.
اضافة اعلان
The 55 political
parties under study are licensed and registered at the
Ministry of Political and Parliamentary Affairs. The fact that less than half of these parties have
members (24 in all) running for elections means that 57 percent of these
political parties have no candidate. The number of candidates reached 74.
According to the
study, 19 political parties fielded nominees for the position of mayor,
distributed among eight governorates; the number of candidates for municipal
councils reached 24.
There are 22 women
candidates, 11 running for provincial councils, 11 for municipal council
membership, but no party nominated a woman to run for mayor of the
Greater Amman Municipality.
The upcoming
elections will be completely fair, 35.2 percent of the parties said, while 50
percent said that the elections will be fair to some extent, and 14.8 percent
said they will be unfair.
Rased CEO
Amer Bani Amer said that the weak participation of parties in the electoral process
highlights the conclusion of the Royal Committee to Modernize the Political
System, which stressed the need to strengthen partisan life and urged parties
to change the present approach to political participation.
He also said that
the participation of parties in elections is proof of their ability to produce
elected local and national political leaders, and stressed the importance of
national efforts to help parties play an effective role in any election.
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