Chairperson of the Royal Committee to Modernise the Political System, Senator Samir Rifai, said that parties and elections committees will meet after the completion of consensus on the two bills of parties and elections, explaining that the two laws complement each other.
Rifai, who attended part of the subcommittee meetings on Sunday, added that parties’ law defines partisan work, while the election law defines seats allocated to parties within the national party list.
In turn, Hamza Mansour, a member of the Parties Committee, said that the committee intensively continues its work and listens to various points of view by reviewing previous expertise with the aim of reaching a draft law that serves partisan work and achieves the contents of His Majesty’s message to the chair and members of the Royal Committee.
Mansour told the Jordan News Agency (Petra), that the committee discussed several issues related to partisan work, including the increase in the number of founders, but it cannot be increased at once, as the matter needs to be slowed down so that it is done in stages, stressing that the Parties Committee is serious about its work with the aim of producing a draft law that would lead future parties to form or participate in the formation of governments, especially since His Majesty the King has always called for the existence of strong, programmatic parties.
Mansour indicated that there is hope to improve partisan work by passing a bill that meets the aspirations.
Source: Jordan News Agency