Analyst and commentator on Middle Eastern and
Palestinian affairs
3July 2011

On June 12th 2011, King Abdullah announced that he supported proposals for a new electoral system and a political party’s law suggesting that the country was moving towards forming parliamentary governments. “The (election)  law should guarantee the fairness and transparency of the electoral process through a mechanism that will lead to a Parliament with active political party representation; one that allows the formation of governments based on parliamentary majority and political party manifestos in the future”,  Abdullah declared...