Jordan Islamists call for national salvation government

Sun, 21 Nov 2010

Amman - Jordan's main opposition group, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), on Sunday urged the formation of a "national salvation government" to help come to grips with the political and social problems facing the country.

"The formation of a national salvation government that enjoys the confidence of the people has become an urgent necessity," the IAF Executive Bureau, the party's highest decision-making body, said in a statement.

"Such a government should open serious dialogue with all political and social forces in the country with a view to surmounting the impasse currently facing the country, otherwise the consequences will be more dangerous," it added.

The IAF and its mother group, the Muslim Brotherhood movement, boycotted November 9 parliamentary elections, demanding political reforms, including a new election law that provides for proportional representation.

Media reports on Sunday suggested that King Abdullah II was likely to ask Prime Minister Samir Rifai to form a new cabinet after the elections that returned a majority of government loyalists in the lower house of parliament.

The IAF held the government responsible for a series of violent incidents that swept the country over the past few months, including post-polls rioting.

The new chamber is expected to hold its inaugural meeting next week.

The IAF also condemned the government for continuing normal ties with Israel at a time when that country was "Judaizing" East Jerusalem, which Jordan lost to the Jewish state in the 1967 Middle East war.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/354537,call-national-salvation-government.html.