In a carefully-worded letter,
His Majesty King Abdullah has appointed 92 members headed by Senator
Samir Al-Rafai to revamp the political system, specifically laws concerning
elections, political parties and local administration. The committee was also
tasked with recommending necessary constitutional amendments for the revamped
laws, along with means of empower the oversight and legislative role of Parliament,
in its capacity as the leader of democratic progress.
اضافة اعلان
The
size of this committee reflects that comprehensive representation of all
factions of the Jordanian society was an important goal.
According
to media figures, 20 percent of the committee members are comprised of women,
40 percent youth, 25 percent activists and former members of Parliament, 15
percent political party members, 9 percent union members and media figures, and
19 percent academics.
Ideological
diversity is also essential; the committee included conservatives, centrists, Islamists,
leftists, and civil liberals.
This
committee is a representation of all flanks of Jordanian society, political, social
and professional.
This
is a highly important task that must be executed in the shortest timeline
possible, as it must be completed by the time Parliament’s next ordinary
session begins.
However,
the King’s promise that the committee’s work would be conducted with no
intervention or lagging will give committee members and its president enough
momentum to live up to his majesty’s and the people’s expectations.
As the head of the state, the King, will grant
the state’s credibility to support the outcomes of the reform committee, which puts
great historical responsibility on every member of this committee, and all of
them must have a resilient spirit so that the Kingdom can enter its second
centenary as a strong nation, with modern reforms as a fundamental national
value for the country’s people and institutions.
The King wanted Jordan to enter its second
centenary with the determination of the forefathers, who built the country, as
it is the duty of this generation to build on their achievements, to meet the
national aspirations, and enter the second centenary with the morale of modernizing
work, to build on the historical success stories.
Jordanians
have the right to expect that members of the reform committee will engage with
a cooperative mentality and put aside ideological differences and biases;
constructive dialogue is based on mutual understanding that all parties must
strive to achieve.
One
of the country’s strengths is its ability to embrace all differing
perspectives, and all of its policies were based on finding a common ground
representative of all perspectives.
We
also need to institutionalize a new approach in decision making and public
policies that guards our diversity and strengthens it, all for the benefit of
the collective, and as long as we have our shared values, while the rest is
subject to objective and constructive initiative, aiming towards strengthening
and modernizing the country.
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