The Compass – Muhammad Saad

The work of the nineteenth National Assembly will open in its regular session, tomorrow, Sunday, provided that a new president will be chosenParliamentAfter former President Abdel Karim Al-Daghmi announced his non-candidacy, MPs Ahmed Al-Safadi and Firas Al-Ajarmeh revealed their intention to run.

The session is supposed to be held with the speech of the royal throne, marking the inauguration of a new phase in the year 2023, the year that bears the name of political modernization and economic empowerment, as two reference documents were issued earlier with royal support.

According to the constitutional amendments approved last January, the term of the parliament’s presidency was modified to one year instead of two, while keeping the president’s re-election permissible, by a decision of two-thirds of the parliament’s members.

According to the parliament’s bylaws, the official candidacy for the position of the president or membership of the permanent office is only done at the start of the parliament session, and there is no text in the bylaws that asks the deputies to announce their candidacy before that date, but whoever wishes to run must anticipate Starting the session by communicating with the representatives.

At the same time, five members of the House of Representatives, at least so far, a number that can be increased by the way, announced their candidacy for themselves as the first deputy speaker of the House of Representatives.

In light of the loss of popular confidence in the House of Representatives, the Speakers of the House of Representatives, in their personal and professional capacities, bear a large part of the responsibility for the decline in the House’s role in political life, especially with the talk of a major meddling of the executive authority over the legislative authority, such as interference in the electoral process itself, and interference in internal affairs. for the council.

A report prepared by the “Al-Hayat – Monitor” Center to evaluate the work of the 19th parliament in its second year revealed that the government succeeded in passing 22 laws that it submitted to the parliament, and the parliament members were unable to pass any proposed law.

Member of Parliament, Farid Haddad, said, for his part, that “the large amount of legislative work … was at the expense of oversight,” noting that “the oversight sessions did not exceed in the regular session more than 7 sessions.”

According to Haddad, the House of Representatives dealt with “22 huge laws,” including the outputs of the Royal Committee to Modernize the Political System in Jordan, which issued constitutional amendments, the election law, and the parties’ law, explaining, “This was a very big legislative act, as well as other laws that continued until the special session, all of this.” of massive legislation was at the expense of censorship.”

A monitoring report, according to Haddad, “did not address the issue of the quorum under the dome.”

The writer Makram Al-Tarawneh, editor-in-chief of Al-Ghad newspaper, believes that “the change is no longer limited to the government, which made an amendment to its team, or to the Senate, whose members have been reconstituted, but will also include the presidency of the House of Representatives, which appears to be a new person in the parliament. On his way to his presidency after Abdel Moneim Al-Awdat in his first year, and Abdel Karim Al-Daghmi in his second year.

Tarawneh stressed, in his published article entitled “The Presidency of Representatives… How do we bring about change?”, “The parliament has not proven its existence until today, and the Jordanian street does not expect much from it to provide it in light of the experience of the past two years. This, of course, was not related to the strength or weakness of the person and performance of the two presidents; Al-Awdat and Al-Daghmi, but rather because the representatives themselves are preoccupied with shaping their service identity at the expense of their legislative essence.”

Al-Tarawneh explained that the most prominent challenges that will face the next president is to think of what the House of Representatives needs to develop in its system, committees, and legislative performance.

A member of the Journalists Syndicate, Bilal Al-Agaila, commented on the movement of the elections for the presidency of the House of Representatives, saying, “What is nominated from the movements of the upcoming parliamentary elections and a new synthesis to be arranged can only be placed in the category of insulting sites, contempt for people, disrespect for their desires, and even breaking their convictions. They do all this and ask you for a sinful applause for this shamelessness and this national mediocrity.