AMMAN — The Injaz bloc recorded a land sliding
victory in elections at the
Amman Chamber of Industry (ACI), with its members
sweeping the seats of the chamber’s ruling executive council.
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Injaz business tycoons won seven of the nine council
seats, defeating their rival Sinaee bloc, which commanded only two seats in the
elections held on Saturday.
In simultaneous chamber polls held outside the
capital Amman, Al-Wefaq bloc, headed by Hani Abu Hassan, won all the council
seats of the Irbid Chamber of Industry.
In Zarqa, the Zarqa Industrial bloc, headed by Fares
Hammoudeh, won all nine council seats.
In the ACI elections in Amman, Injaz’s leading
member Fathi Al-Jaghbir, who won the highest number of 608 votes, was
re-elected ACI president for another four-year term.
Other winning Injaz members are Tamim Al-Qasrawi,
who won 567 votes, Dima Sukhtian, who received 551 votes, Ahmed Al-Khodari with
529 votes, Saad Yassin 524 votes, Majdi Al-Hashlamoun 507 votes, and Ahed
Al-Rajbi 501 votes.
Musa Al-Saket, who won 536 votes, and Iyad Abu
Haltam, with 540 votes, are members of the Sinaee bloc who also won seats in
ACI’s council, also known as board.
Injaz’s sweeping victory underpins the satisfaction
of ACI members in the performance of Jaghbir and other Injaz members and
confidence in their work in the serving Jordan’s industrial sector.
The voter turnout
in the polls, which closed at 7pm on Saturday evening, was 88 percent of 1,330
eligible ACI voters in Amman, Irbid and Zarqa. The
Independent Election Commission (IEC) supervised the polls.
Mansour Al-Banna, chairman of Jordan’s Cement
Traders Association, told
Jordan News that the outcome was “satisfactory
to all industrialists, especially that those who won have a long history of
experience in the industrial sector, and commendable efforts in serving
industrialists, and the industrial and commercial sectors alike.”
Ihab Al-Shorafa, CEO of Almurjan Co. For Canned
Food, told
Jordan News that the fact that the voter turnout was 88
percent means that the elections “were successful by all standards”.
He said that that Injaz’s success underlines the “
satisfaction of industrialists with the performance of the bloc in the previous
period.”
However, he said he supported the two rival blocs,
considering that those who were candidates from the two blocs deserve success
due to their commendable efforts in serving the sector.
Kamal Al-Awamleh, director of the Jordan Housing
Association, told
Jordan News that the results “were expected, whether
in Amman, Zarqa, or Irbid”.
He said that those who won the elections are
well-known and important industrial figures with successful experiences in the
past, and that they are the best representatives of industrialists before
local, Arab, and international bodies.
“We hope that the new members will use their
expertise to serve the industrial sector, and that there will be no withdrawal
of any of the members of an industrial bloc,” he said.
He noted the importance of having a strong and
effective board aimed at developing and serving the sector, which “suffers from
many problems, especially in light of the high prices of oil derivatives”.
“We should have legislation and solutions to help
the sector and get out of the bottleneck situation we’re in,” he said.
He asserted that the elections “were fair, due to
the awareness of the industrialists, and IEC’s supervision”.
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