You have overlooked an essential part of the law, the 10% representation in at least 5 cities in jordan. which means that every party should have at least 50% of its members outside Amman and divided equally on 5 different cities, a condition that does not aim for merging parties but rather hindering the political process.

Yes 500 member in jordan is a huge number to have in one party; of course many thanks here goes to the very human and democratic prcoedures the government has been doing since the 70’s more over the 50’s when the JCP alone had thousands of members secretly joining an unallowed party and whom paid and still pay regarding that years at jail, prevention from working in any agency with a value and the continous haressements on all levels. thats beside the other parties all jordanian were in, every one in jordan knows many older grandparents, uncles and aunts and family friends who were politically active yet does not know one single young jordanian even knows what’s the political situation we have in jordan, also Thank you goes to the same functioning government policy.

So basically we have a problem here, and the source of this problem is the undemoratic government policies that wants to shape a certain political spectrum in jordan through any mean it can use. Political parties still function since 50’s and 70’s are not in a place to show the government that they have a good background of political friends and supporters outside the party belive in the same principles and agenda yet unwilling to enroll in the party for several issues, merging with other parties seriously wont make it go.

Its just enough to know, that any active Youth organization with believes and political line that differs with the government policies does not get a license to function and that refusal is just justified through the several rights decision makers have.

The government was actually threatened last summer with 20 young girl and guy demanding a clean stand during the war on lebanon, those 20 jordanian youth brought considerable amount of police and intelligence forces and guys were actually follwed after the 20 person (imagine a 20) small demo ended.

When a government is worried about enriching political awarness and freedom; of course to produce more active political life it does not add more rules and laws to cripple the process. you want political interaction, yup open the process and enough with laws and regulations, otherwise add as many conditions and rules, produce the spectrum you want and dont call it a step toward democracy cause its simply not.

is that too much to ask for ? you are in JORDAN elected by JORDANIANS and in the JORDANIAN government if you are not concerned with Jordanian issues then you don’t belong and you are raping the democratic elections until you get strong enough to establish non-democratic-iran-egypt-style governments !!