الانتخاب والانتحاب
Sunday 10 October 2010
, Posted by Shaheen at 06:26
Elections campaign has started, against the government will, the head news : arresting 35 activists from the Islamic front, something that used to prove that the government is not honest in the political reform plan, and put a big question mark on its alleged efforts in creating a new healthy political environment in the kingdom.
Another black image was drawn this morning by Rana sabagh article in Alarab alyaom, where she shed a light on vote selling and compromising between candidates and voters. Basically, her point was the government measures against "political money" were not efficient, because people don't expect any positive difference out of this election, so, they want to take the only available and confirmed benefit :their votes prices.
Personally and unfortunately, I don't care for 2010 elections, for many reasons, on top of them is that the government has stolen the legislative role of the parliament for many years, by issuing hundreds on Temporary law, so , what is the benefit of having a parliament while the government stamps all laws by itself.
Another reason, is that the political environment in Jordan is poisoned and corrupt, people use their posts to make money and facilitate their business, there are no lines between what is personal and what is public.
In last two weeks only we knew about two corruption scandals with total amount of 110 million which takes us for another question, what was the previous parliaments role in combating corruption? some would say they were in the middle of each and every scandal. Also, I really want to know what happened in 2007 elections, was it really manipulated? who did that ? why was there no investigations?
Finally, and most importantly, what worries me is that violence in our society will take a new boost by elections, especially in tribal areas where people have been severely biased toward their candidates. The elections will be a potential spark that will ignite fires. Hopefully, we can pass that day with minimum harm.
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