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City council swore in Jordan at Monday night's meeting to replace the now-retired Peggy Ehora in the Fourth Ward spot after an almost two month-long search. "I appreciate all the support I am ...
Established in 1946, at the time of the independence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the RHC is the official institution that oversees the preparation and implementation of the King's local and international activities, while providing the necessary political, administrative and diplomatic support to the state in order to enable them to ...
The Parliament of Jordan (Arabic: مجلس الأمة Majlis Al-Umma) is the bicameral Jordanian national assembly. Established by the 1952 Constitution , the legislature consists of two houses: the Senate ( Arabic : مجلس الأعيان Majlis Al-Aayan ) and the House of Representatives ( Arabic : مجلس النواب Majlis Al-Nuwaab ).
On 15 August 2017, Jordan held local elections for three levels of government: mayoralties, municipal and local councils, and governorate councils. While the municipal and local councils have been elected consistently since 1925, the governorate council elections are the first of their kind in Jordan, with the councils established by a new 2014 decentralization law.
The Cabinet of Jordan is led by the Prime Minister who is appointed by the King. The Prime Minister is then free to form his own cabinet which is responsible to the Chamber of Deputies on matters of general policy and can be forced to resign by a two-thirds vote of " no confidence " by that body or be dismissed by the King.
In a virtual committee meeting later in January 2021, Mr Jordan said, “What happened at the Capitol on January 6 was as wrong as wrong can be,” according to The Washington Post.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Princess Rajwa, wife of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan, gave birth to a baby girl Saturday, the couple's firstborn and first grandchild of King Abdullah II, the country's ...
[7] France 24 reported that the "nearly half a million votes" the IAF won was "unprecedented in their history in Jordan." [12] Adaileh also claimed that the election results were a "popular referendum" for Jordan to scrap the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, and to back Hamas. [13] On 15 September, Bisher Khasawneh resigned as prime minister.