AMMAN – A new
parliamentary memorandum has been drafted to reverse the decision taken last
Thursday by a vote of 91 deputies to suspend MP Osama Al-Ajarmeh. The new
memorandum will be presented on Monday, according to MP Saleh Armouti’s
statement.
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These events came
against the backdrop of last Monday’s House session, in which Ajarmeh said that
“the power outage was deliberate to prevent solidarity marches of clans for
Palestine in light of the recent Israeli aggression.” Other representatives
demanded proof of Ajarmeh’s claims.
After that, Ajarmeh engaged in
a confrontational dialogue with a colleague and uttered insults towards representatives
and the House’s internal code. On Thursday, 91
deputies voted to suspend the
representative’s membership for one year.
MP Saleh Armouti, a seasoned jurist, said that the signing of the new memorandum was not completed, stressing that the
first memorandum was “unconstitutional.”
“There is no constitutional provision that allows suspending the
membership of any deputy; depriving people from having representatives in the
House is unconstitutional,” he told Jordan News.
Armouti added that the public interest is the priority at this stage.
However, according to
legal expert Leen Al-Khayat, the suspension is constitutional. "According
to the amendment of the rules of procedures that were approved by the
Seventeenth Council, the House of Representatives is considered the master of
itself and has the right to impose punishment if there is an inappropriate conduct,
including statements that offend the legislature,”
she told Jordan News.
Khayat added that the
suspension is not subject to appeal before any court, in implementation of the
principle of separation of powers. She stressed that this ruling is a sovereign
decision. "The most important feature of the suspension is the lifting of
the MP's immunity," the expert added.
She clarified that the
rally Ajarmeh gathered and his behavior is considered illegal, noting that he
could be charged with “raising a weapon (a sword) in a gesture of threatening,
expressions of incitement, carrying, possessing and firing a gun, whether it is
licensed or not.”
MP Ajarmeh was seen in
videos circulated on social media after his suspension, holding a sword and
with a gun in a hip holster, surrounded by his ardent supporters, and threating
to escalate the situation.
Khayyat noted that a
precedent for this suspension had occurred before.
“A similar decision
was made before, and the Lower House reversed it at that time,” she recalled.
She stressed the need to pay attention to the image of the Lower House, internally
and internationally.
MP Yanal Freihat said that the deputies of the Fifth District took the
first steps of the parliamentary memorandum that seeks to reverse the suspension,
and that many MPs who voted to suspend Ajarmeh have “regretted the decision”.
Freihat added that those who voted for Ajarmeh should not be deprived of
having a representative in the House.
"The punishment was severe and unconstitutional," he said. He
also indicated that he was not sure whether the motives behind what happened
with Ajarmeh were personal or not, and that the deputy should not be punished
for his political opinion.”
Freihat said that “he does not support any illegal reaction and that the
principle is that we look at the action, not the reaction," noting that the
gathering MP Ajarmeh called in Naour was a reaction.
Ali Al-Sawaeer, deputy head of the Al-Ajarmeh Tribe Gathering, said that “things look promising and we are waiting
the
Lower House to reverse the decision.”
Sawaeer added that the deputy’s suspension was caused by his “strong
political stances, and that what was considered offensive language was really
no more than an expression of anger.”
The tribal chief dismissed as untrue rumors that
Ajarmeh was arrested
and confirmed that he was at his home.
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