Maaita: We look positively at the relationship with the parties
April 18, 2022
Amman, April 18 (Petra) - The speaker of the Board of Commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission, Engineer Musa al-Maaita, said that the adoption of amendments by the House of Representatives to amend the law of the Commission is a legislative entitlement in line with the constitutional amendments, which approved the transfer of powers to supervise political parties to become part of the functions of the commission, in addition to amendments to the laws governing the most important of which is the law of parties. Al-Maaita said in a special statement to the Jordanian news agency Petra on Monday that the transfer of powers to apply the law of parties to the commission in the first place is a reform demand since 2011, aimed at keeping the parties away from the government in order to ensure the independence of these parties. He explained that the Commission will soon launch the unity of political parties, after completing the legislative assets of the amended law, with the aim of building positive relations with all political parties, based on integrity, neutrality, and networking with them, in addition to the tasks of unity in registering parties and following up their affairs. Al-Maaita stressed that the commission considers positively the relationship with political parties, and that its doors are open to them at any time leading to the achievement of the desired constitutional amendments.
He pointed out that after the adoption of these amendments in accordance with the constitutional channels through the approval of the Senate and its nomination of the high royal will, the Commission will work to implement what the government decides in the system of party funding, which arises from the recommendations of the Royal Commission to modernize the political system in order to ensure its development in order to motivate parties to participate actively. Al-Maaita pointed out that the party funding system will be subject to the supervision of the authority without interfering in the independence of the parties or their political positions and adhering to what is required by law and the keenness of the authority to support political parties in their election campaigns, so that the measure of the strength of the party is the amount of acceptance of the party popularly and its commitment to the standards in the legislation governing it.
