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Jordan's Islamists: reform must deliver power to the people

February 17, 2014 at 11:17 pm

Jordan’s Islamic Action Front Party has condemned the government’s spokesman, Samih Maaytah, for a recent statement in which he asserted that the level of reform achieved in Jordan thus far was adequate and met the demands of the Jordanian people.

In a party press statement broadcast on [Tuesday, April 5th], the officer in charge of the Islamic Action Front Party’s national file, Mohammed Awad Zyoud, asserted that Maaytah’s statement was “contemptuous of the Jordanian people and refers to them in an unacceptable manner. His statement is far off from the truth and misses the lowest degree of objectivity.”


Zyoud added: “the reform that does not lead to the constitutional transfer of power to the Jordanian people, is not reform; the reform that does not restore the looted money, sold companies, and stolen lands, is not real reform; the reform that could not, until this moment, hold the corrupt accountable and prosecute them is counterfeit reform; the reform through which symbols of corruption have been acquitted and their files closed is an imperfect reform; the reform that does not lead to an election law based on a large national consensus to rise above the corrupt and fraudulent parliaments which make laws for protecting the corrupt and granting them the instruments of innocence and forgiveness cannot be called a reform, but rather the corruption itself.”