AMMAN —
The Lower House will discuss the controversial
letter of intent signed by the government with
the UAE and Israel last month in its Wednesday session, it was announced.
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The Lower House’s initial
attempt to debate the
water-for-energy deal fell through last Wednesday when
deputies walked out of the session in protest of the presence of
Minister of Water Mohammad Al-Najjar. Speaker Abdel Karim Al-Dhogmi had to adjourn the
meeting after he announced that there was nothing in the by-laws about ejecting
a minister from Lower House a session.
Seventy-six deputies had
requested a special session to debate the agreement, which most lawmakers
denounce as normalization with Israel with little benefit to the Kingdom.
The
government is yet to provide information about the proposed project between
Jordan, Israel, and the UAE under which the latter will finance building a
solar farm in southern Jordan that will generate clean energy to be sold to
Israel in return for 200 million cubic meters of desalinated water annually.
Meanwhile,
for the third week running, hundreds of Jordanians marched in protest of the
deal after Friday prayers in downtown Amman.
Demonstrators called for
scrapping the deal along with the natural gas agreement between Jordan and
Israel. The
government had said earlier that once a formal agreement is signed
with the other two parties then the document will be sent to the Lower House for
debate.
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