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Representatives reduce the term of the parliament presidency to one year

Amman Today

publish date 2022-01-04 15:31:01

The House of Representatives decided during its session today, Tuesday, to approve the amendment of Article 69 of the Jordanian Constitution, to reduce the term of the presidency of the House of Representatives from two years to one year.

The Council agreed to add cases in which the Speaker of the House of Representatives loses his position, which are 1. Resignation and is considered effective from the date of its deposit with the General Secretariat of the Council, 2. Death, 3. By a decision issued by two thirds of the members of the Council.

He also added a paragraph to the article stating: “If the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives becomes vacant for any of the reasons mentioned in Paragraph 3 or for any other reason, the Vice President shall assume the presidency of the Council until a new Speaker is elected within a period of two weeks from the date of the vacancy of the position, and the House of Representatives is not in session. The council is called to meet in an extraordinary session in which it elects its president.

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