Ammon – The Council of Ministers, headed by Dr. Jaafar Hassan, took 46 decisions during the first 47 days of the current year, including 26 decisions that serve the needs of citizens, ease the burdens on them, and provide them with more solutions in their living reality, and 20 decisions in health, legislation, economy, investment, and education that preserve the interest of the nation, its growth, its economy, and investment in it.

By monitoring government decisions during the period between the first of last January and the 16 of this month, it was found that the government agreed to implement the second phase of the project to develop regular public transportation between the governorates within 7 main routes from the capital to Tafila, Ma’an, and Ajloun, and from Zarqa to Mafraq, Irbid, and Jerash, with a total of 180 buses serving 13,000 passengers. It decided to reduce university debts, paid arrears to electricity companies, and transferred the first installment to insurance for cancer patients. It extinguished its outstanding debts.

On January 12, the government, under royal patronage, launched its executive program for the years 2026-2029, which aims to translate national visions into tangible results on the ground within clear timetables and continuous follow-up and evaluation mechanisms.

One of the most prominent government decisions that constitutes great importance on the economic level is the government completing the amortization of the Eurobonds due in January 2026, which were borrowed on November 10, 2015, in the amount of one billion dollars at an interest rate of 6.125 percent, and paying the amount of 612 million dollars and the interest due on them in January, while it paid early last November, and for the first time in decades, part of these bonds with a total value of 388 million dollars in order to provide part of interest payable on bonds.

Government decisions that contribute to reducing the burden on citizens:

From the beginning of 2026 until the beginning of February, the government took several decisions, most notably assigning the Ministry of Social Development to replace 15,000 unsafe heaters with safe ones for deserving families and allocating the necessary amounts for that, through social development centers in the governorates and Tkiyet Um Ali, completing the allocation of financial amounts to those affected by the weather conditions and disbursing them to deserving families in turn, and disbursing compensation for lands affected by the slides that occurred in the Al-Marj area. In Karak Governorate, compensation has been disbursed to more than 120 families so far in the affected areas.

The government decided to approve the decision of the Water Authority’s Board of Directors, which includes approval to drill, rehabilitate, and operate new, scattered wells in partnership with the private sector on the build, operate, and transfer (BOT) system for the purposes of enhancing the Kingdom’s water resources, and to extend the work of its previous decision, which includes supporting agricultural exports of fresh vegetables and fruits at 50 percent of the cost of air freight, and 25 percent of the cost of sea freight.

It approved the “Local Financing Solutions to Support the Transformation of the Agri-Food System” program for the purposes of promoting high-value industries, supporting the formation of agricultural alliances, training workers in the agricultural sector and developing and sustaining their work.

The government agreed to extend the decision to grant discounts and exemptions on the building and land tax (roofs), the knowledge tax, the sanitation contribution, the inspection allowance, returns, compensation, road waste, and rents and their returns due to municipalities and the Greater Amman Municipality until the end of next March. It also agreed to settle 1,003 cases between taxpayers and the Income and Sales Tax Department.

The Prime Minister opened the Crowne Plaza Hotel, which has been closed for years after its renovation, which provides 200 job opportunities for the local community and inspects a number of tourist sites in the Petra District. It constitutes an additional tourist facility for the city of Petra and includes 143 rooms, including 62 hotel rooms, 81 chalets, and a hall for meetings and celebrations that can accommodate approximately 300 people, and priority employment there is for the sons and daughters of the community. Local.

The government paid arrears worth 125 million dinars to a number of parties as part of the policy of paying arrears accumulated by the government over many years, bringing the total amounts paid during the past weeks to 275 million dinars, including arrears accumulated over five years from ministries and government and official institutions in favor of electricity distribution companies, amounting to a total of approximately 60 million dinars, and to the Yarmouk Water Company worth 10 million. dinars, and the Water Authority must pay 25 million dinars, and arrears worth 30 million dinars to the printing presses charged with printing books and curricula for the Ministry of Education.

Direct decisions in the health sector.

The Prime Minister directed to expedite the tender for the construction of a new building at Mafraq Governmental Hospital without any delay, which will include an emergency department with a capacity of 55 beds, a dialysis department with a capacity of 30 units, and 10 intensive care beds, in addition to building a new floor for the outpatient clinics building, during his inspection of the hospital.

It decided to approve an agreement to pay the University of Jordan Hospital’s debt resulting from medical treatments, as part of the government’s endeavor to pay all accumulated arrears, as since its formation, it has paid more than 620 million dinars out of nearly one billion dinars that had previously accumulated.
It exempted ambulances, which are equipped for the use of persons with disabilities, from the total special tax amounting to 48 percent, making it zero, and approved the “Food Alliance – Transforming Agri-Food Systems” project document for the purposes of reducing food loss and waste.

The foundation stone was laid for a new building at Prince Faisal Hospital in Al-Rusaifah District, on an area equivalent to the size of the currently existing building, at a cost of nine million dinars, with funding from the Saudi Fund for Development. It will be completed in three phases, and includes four advanced floors for intensive and intensive care, ambulance and emergency, surgical operations, an educational department, and support services.

The government signed a financing agreement with the Saudi Fund for Development worth $28 million to complete the equipment for Princess Basma Hospital, as the Fund had previously provided a grant worth $70 million to contribute to the establishment of the hospital in Irbid Governorate.

An amount of 62 million dinars was disbursed to the King Hussein Cancer Foundation as a first installment of the cost of implementing an agreement to insure 4.1 million citizens at the King Hussein Cancer Center, within the “Care” program for cancer treatment, which began implementation at the beginning of this year. The second and third installments, each worth 31 million dinars, will be due during the second quarter and the fourth quarter of this year. According to the agreement, citizens over the age of 60 were insured. They are more likely to receive treatment at the King Hussein Cancer Center, and they are the group most vulnerable to infection and the most expensive, according to specialized studies.

Government decisions that support investment:

As part of its efforts to open areas for investment, the government agreed to establish a free zone within the business and passenger lounges at both Queen Alia International Airport and Amman City Airport, and approved the reasons for a draft law amending the Real Property Law of 2026 to address the issues of eliminating communism by simplifying and accelerating its procedures, which contributes to resolving many of the outstanding issues for years regarding thousands of properties, and introducing unexploited properties into the economic cycle.

The government approved the land use regulation and map system for the year 2026, and the temporary entry system for vehicles into the Aqaba Special Economic Zone for the year 2026. The Council of Ministers decided to cancel its decision taken to assign the Minister of Health to proceed with the procedures for repealing the High Health Council Law No. (9) of 1999. This decision came with the aim of reactivating the High Health Council in a step aimed at strengthening health governance and unifying the references concerned with setting national health policies, in line with government directions aimed at developing The health sector and raising the efficiency of planning and responding to current and future health challenges.

International cooperation is the government’s top priority:

During this period, the government approved a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure in Turkey, and the Ministry of Transport in Syria for cooperation in the field of transport, and approved a bilateral cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Youth and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Bulgaria, and signed an agreement to buy and sell natural gas between Jordan and Syria, aiming to supply Syria with gas through Jordanian territory, which contributes to supporting the Syrian electricity sector and reducing From the severity of the energy shortage.

On the 6th of this month, the government signed an agreement to invest more than 130 million dinars to develop and operate the multi-purpose port in Aqaba, according to an agreement signed between the Aqaba Development Company and Abu Dhabi Ports Group. Prime Minister Dr. Jaafar Hassan opened specialized dialogue sessions on the Umrah City project in the presence of more than 150 experts and specialists who represented the various sectors concerned. He directed that a periodic review be conducted to raise the response rate to all oversight observations in the Audit Bureau’s report. And linking it with public sector modernization procedures.

During a working visit to Lebanon, Prime Minister Dr. Jaafar Hassan and his Lebanese counterpart, Dr. Nawaf Salam, chaired the meeting of the joint high committee of the two countries, which included the signing of 21 cooperation agreements in various fields.

Cleanliness strategy…a top government priority

The government announced the launch of the executive program for the hygiene strategy and reducing random waste dumping for the years 2026-2027, in a step that reflects a comprehensive national commitment to protecting public health and the environment, improving the reality of public cleanliness in the various governorates of the Kingdom, and promoting responsible environmental behavior.

The executive program is based on four main axes, which address the phenomenon of random dumping of waste through an integrated system of regulatory, technical, supervisory and awareness-raising measures, designed based on a realistic assessment of the challenges and needs in various regions, and in line with a comprehensive approach based on the integration of environmental and development policies, consolidating the principles of sustainability, and improving the quality of life.

(Petra – Barakat Al-Zyoud)