Comments on: King Abdullah Dissolves Parliament And Calls For Early Elections

By: Chaucer

Chaucer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:04:33 +0000

An interesting analysis from Marwan Al Kabalan in the Gulf News

http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/abdullah-may-see-crisis-on-horizon-1.532749

By: Londoner

Londoner — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:19:05 +0000

as long as palestinian-jordanians are disadvantaged in representation by the election law, there will be no hope in having a well balanced and educated parliament….

By: Jordan and Democracy: Know More | Eyas blogs

Jordan and Democracy: Know More | Eyas blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:33:30 +0000

[...] slated for 2011. Following news of the Royal Decree, 85% of Jordanians rejoiced from across the political spectrum,while almost every non-Jordanian I have encountered used this as ‘tangible [...]

By: Mohanned

Mohanned — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:53:21 +0000

Sam,
I love u too.

Naseem,
If there is a reshuffle in the govt, it will be interesting to see if Sahel majali will still be there. Now for real, shouldn’t the minister of interior have been fired? Overall, the parliment isn’t the policy maker in Jo, so why they were put at the forefront of this “new” reform escalation? True reform would come if the powers to be surrendered some of its powers and took action based on its words that we got so used to hearing.

I say, it is the same ol’ same..Why should we expect it be different this time? Everything looks the same, the same policies are still in place.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:09:01 +0000

Mohanned.. I LOVE YOU

By: Hareega

Hareega — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:20:33 +0000

The Parliament shouldn’t be dissolved. It sucks big time but it was voted for by the people.

By: Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy

Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:33 +0000

[...] 2010 budget, which was expected to have a rough ride. Black Iris reports that the move is being overwhelming supported by the Jordanian public as the parliament was viewed as incompetent and, as Sameeh al-Maitah says [...]

By: George

George — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:48 +0000

Are any of these articles and opinion pieces you link to particularly worthy of translation into English? If so, feel free to request from our translations community at Meedan:

http://groups.google.com/group/meedan-translations

Thanks!

By: The Majlis

The Majlis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:54:42 +0000

The Black Iris on Abdullah and parliament…

Naseem Tarawnah over at The Black Iris has a smart take on King Abdullah’s decision to dissolve Jordan’s parliament and call for early elections….

By: Nas

Nas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:44:39 +0000

Dave, Kinzi, Fred: thanks for reading!

Chris: thanks! as for hajjaj. no, unfortunately, i do not know of any site that offers translations except his own, and they are not daily.

Mohanned: From a piece written in Ammon about MP reactions, it seems Abdel Hadi was also taken a bit by surprise, or at least in a last-to-know position. http://ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=49507

as for promises, they are worthless. unless we see real changes happening before the actual election then we can count on a repeat of results and i do hope the abu ragheb era is over! in any case, time will tell. i have a feeling elections will be postponed. the constitution says the new parliament should be holding its first session in four months, which means campaigning should begin, which means elections should be announced any time soon….

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:13:51 +0000

Thanks for this quick and thoughtful comment on events! Black Iris has again proved to be an excellent source of up to date information which, if – like me – you don’t understand Arabic, is especially helpful if you want to follow Jordanian political events.

By: Mohanned

Mohanned — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:49:38 +0000

A welcome move but a late one. A good move but a one that is also a manifistation of what is all wrong with our “politics” of governing. Now, the interesting questions are: was is a coup agains the forces of no? Was it a coup against the forces of the status quo? Did the one and only Abdel Hadi el majali know? Or was it a slap in the face for him? For example will he be appeased in one way or another.How about the senate? What goal do they serve? Will we be promised and “guranteed” a clean and fair elections just like the last one..I mean the fraud was beyond obvious yet it took almost two years to take action..Will we be back to the Abu Elragheb era of temp laws?

Too many question that have not been answered yet..

By: kinzi

kinzi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:41:19 +0000

Wow. Yea, I’ll make that three foreigners who appreciate your interpretation of this news.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:09:16 +0000

Nice roundup of today’s events Nas. There’s not many good english blogs that have a Jordanian political slant (Google translations of local papers is not quite the same), so for that I’ll give you my BC award vote. BTW, is there any place that has daily translations of Emad Hajjaj’s cartoons?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:03:14 +0000

As always, well written and professional. Thanks for the update.