IEC publishes updated voters list based on residency registration

AMMAN — The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Thursday published an updated voters' list based on their residency registration .

“We have published the most updated voters list based on the voters’ residency registration in preparations for the upcoming elections,” according to the IEC Political Parties Department Director Sharaf Abu Rumman.

The voters’ residency registration is the one that would be “recognised during the voting process,” Abu Rumman told The Jordan Times.

The IEC official added that voters can “amend their place of residency by submitting the necessary documents that prove their new residency”.   

In 2022, the Senate and the Lower House passed the amendments to the Political Parties Law, which require political parties to increase the percentage of women and youth to at least 20 per cent within three years after their foundation.

There should be no less than 1,000 founding members of political parties, and at least 10 per cent should be women and young people between 18 and 35 years old, according to the new law. 

The law also allows university students who join political parties to engage in partisan activities on campus without any infringement on their rights, as a bylaw will be issued to regulate such activities. 

It also stipulates that a founding conference shall be held by the party within a year after meeting the requirements, where no less than a third of the party’s 1,000 founders shall attend, and must represent at least six governorates.  The Political Parties Law, along with the Elections Law, has been revisited by the Royal Committee to Modernise the Political System as part of its mandate to achieve the envisioned political reform.

On February 27, His Majesty King Abdullah met with the IEC Chief Commissioner Musa Maaytah at Al Husseiniya Palace and stated that Jordan is confidently forging ahead in modernisation and building active partisan life.

King Abdullah highlighted the role of young Jordanians as major drivers of modernisation, according to a Royal Court statement.

His Majesty urged devising a clear strategy to dispel doubt and hesitation among young people and ensure their active engagement in political and partisan life.

The King called for enhancing cooperation with universities, and capitalising on the recently endorsed bylaw to organise partisan activism in higher education institutions.