AMMAN — On Wednesday, the Senate began debating a draft of amendments to the Constitution,
in its session headed by Speaker Faisal Al-Fayez, in the presence of Prime
Minister
Bisher Al-Khasawneh, and members of the Cabinet, according to the
Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
On
Thursday, the
Upper House will complete its discussion of the rest of the draft
articles after approving 21 articles — as received from the House of
Representatives — out of a total of 30 articles of the draft constitutional
amendments.
During
the debates, a number of senators deplored the link between adding the word
“Jordanian women” to the title of the second chapter of the Constitution, and
the concerns raised by some about political naturalization and changing the
jurisprudential rules for personal status issues for Muslims, stressing that
the change does not carry any provisions and is merely a moral honor for women.
At
the beginning of the session, the Upper Hous approved the motion of the Lower
House to approve the draft law amending the Law of the State Audit Bureau for
the year 2020, as amended by the Senate.
The
draft amendments to the
Jordanian Constitution come according to compelling
reasons submitted by the government; to consolidate the principle of the rule
of law and separation of powers, and enhance the independence of parliamentary
work in a manner that ensures the effectiveness of parliamentary blocs, and
guarantees the constitutional oversight role of members of Parliament and the
development, promotion, and advancement of legislative performance, and to
empower women, youth and people with disabilities and enhance their role and
position in society.
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