His Excellency Engineer Mousa AlMaaitah
Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Independent Election Commission
Independent Election Commission - Jordan
The Independent Election Commission is the national electoral commission of Jordan, which is responsible for administering and supervising elections under the Constitution of Jordan.
About IEC
An amendment to the constitution in 2011 enabled the establishment of the Commission, which was a demand from the Arab Spring protests. The commission is responsible for all elections in Jordan, including the general and local elections.
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Neutrality
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Transparency
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Independence
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Equality
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The rule of law
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Integrity
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Participatory
Board of Commissioners
The Commission has a Board of Commissioners composed of a President and four members appointed by a Royal Decree for a non-renewable term of six years upon the recommendation of a committee chaired by the Prime Minister and the membership of both the President of the House of Representatives and the President of the Judicial Council and in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the Law of the Commission.
Dr. Abeer Bashir Dababneh
Member
Mr. Ammar Ahmmad Al-Husseini
Member
Mr. Jihad Fawaz Al-Momani
Member
Dr. Raed Sami AlAdwan
Member
Legislation
The work of the Independent Election Commission is regulated by a number of legislations.
As an institution, the Independent Election Commission bears the status of constitutionalism, according to Article 67/2 of the Jordanian constitution.
And according to the law, "ministries, government departments, official and public institutions are obligated to provide all kinds of support and assistance requested by the authority to enable it to carry out the tasks and responsibilities entrusted to it ..."
Outside the election season, the Commission is committed to its duties and legal role to "educate voters about the importance of participating in political life, including electoral processes."
Next, contracts regulate the Commission’s relations, starting with the constitution and ending with highly detailed reports.
LAWS
The Independent Election Commission operates according to its Law No. (11) for the year 2012, and the amendments made to it according to the amended Law No. (46) for the year 2015, whereby the law defines the basic definitions of the Commission’s work, the responsibilities of the Commission, the mechanisms for the formation, tasks and responsibilities of the Board of Commissioners and the General Secretariat, in addition to a number Of the provisions regulating the work of the Commission.
2022 Elections Stats
Regulations and executive instructions
Executive instructions for the councils of governorate , Municipalities and municipality of Amman 2022
Instructions No. (6) of 2021 The executive instructions for accrediting journalists, media professionals and workers in local and international audio-visual and print media institutions
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Instructions No. (8) for the year 2021 - the executive instructions for the accreditation of international observers for the elections
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The Instruction No. (10) for the year 2021, the executive instructions for polling, sorting and compiling And the extraction of results
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Regulations and executive instructions
Executive instructions for the 2020 parliamentary elections(updated)
