I give a positive assessment of the proposed electoral law. It wasn't the best, but it was good, with clear progressive features. It is no small thing that 30% of the seats are allocated to party lists, that Zarqa becomes one district, Irbid two districts, Amman three districts, and women increase to a seat for each district (18 seats), in addition to one seat out of every three on the party list, and youth under the age of thirty-five has a seat from among each. five.
However, this electoral system does not guarantee that the elections will produce coherent programmatic parliamentary blocs, five or six blocs, for example. Although the committee set among its objectives to produce parliamentary blocs in the elections, the proposal it presented was avoided and achieves this result, and one goal was to allocate partisan seats in a national constituency based on (perhaps) a mechanical vision of increasing the proportion of parties in the parliament.
I said and repeated that it was sufficient to direct the law to be nomination for all seats and constituencies through national alliances that include parties and independents and represent the various currents in society, and this method will make a natural liquidation to sort out major parliamentary blocs that declare themselves or are considered political parties to obtain electoral funding in proportion to their votes with the rest of the privileges.
Thus, we would have placed ourselves on the path of political modernization and established a partisan political life in a natural and non-coercive manner and without allocating a “party quota.” A dozen seats were sufficient for the national constituency to go as incentives for electoral alliances according to the percentage of their attainment in all constituencies.
But the matter was not resolved in favor of this proposal, which gives us one of the best electoral systems in the world that achieves the desired goals of political modernization and takes into account the Jordanian peculiarity and all known considerations. The vote is both local and national. It goes to the person, the list, and the party at the same time. It preserves the representation of the provinces and quotas, reduces disparities, and strengthens parties at the same time.
No subsequent proposal succeeded, even partially, to go in this direction, that is, to expand the party lists into an alliance that includes provincial seats instead of deducting provincial seats in favor of the party district!
But the product in any case represents progress and a great leap forward. It has a connection..
