Despite the strict precautionary measures and tools to protect intra-governmental communications, the media managed yesterday to detect something in an important statement by a member of the Cabinet’s economic team, concerning the aftermath of
COVID-19.
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Minister of Labor Youssef Al-Shamali revealed at a meeting with the president and board of the Jordan Chamber of Trade that the state is preparing a program to handle the economic file in the aftermath of the coronavirus and mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic on the various sectors, according to a transcript of the meeting by our colleague, Al-Ghad’s Tareq Daaja.
Little information is available regarding that. We only have some media reports and vague statements monitored earlier that are not enough to build a mature position on the government’s intentions and plans. This issue requires further probing and follow-up so as to collect additional evidence to verify our conclusions regarding the government’s intention to present a recovery plan in the coming stage.
From among the hundreds of messages monitored lately, the media has only intercepted something sounding like coded phrases, such as “safe summer”, “indicative program”, and “political reform”. What is more worrying is the intercepted message about a “revolution” in investment and public administration, which carries potentially dangerous intentions we have not figured out yet.
What is certain so far, based on data and information traced in investigative pieces of journalism, is that the government is preparing for a giant step, but it is still in the early stage and has not reached the “zero hour”.
There are no records of larger-scope communications, as the economic taskforce is doing its work silently and behind closed doors. The mission is cloaked in secrecy, for fear of leaks.
Some say that all the plans are just ambitions and illusions that will be buried in government offices and that would not, in any case, rise to the level of a “revolution”.
Specialists in the government say that, at the current stage, the priority is to block the road before voices and forces that try to take advantage of the pandemic and its economic repercussions to mobilize the people against the government. That would be followed by a political and economic recovery plan and finally a mobilization effort ending with a comprehensive change involving legislation and the way state agencies are administered.
Is there an actual government plan to adopt a holistic project for political and economic revival?
We do not know. Maybe. But we will continue monitoring and identifying officials’ messages that might confirm or deny this conclusion. Maybe we will have to wait for press conferences or media interviews with concerned ministers to figure out this government scheme and bring an end to the debate, uncertainty among Jordanians, and eradicate rumors by presenting the facts.
ESPITE the strict precautionary measures and tools to protect intra-governmental communications, the media managed yesterday to detect something in an important statement by a member of the Cabinet’s economic team, concerning the aftermath of COVID-19.
Minister of Labor Youssef Al-Shamali revealed at a meeting with the president and board of the Jordan Chamber of Trade that the state is preparing a program to handle the economic file in the aftermath of the coronavirus and mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic on the various sectors, according to a transcript of the meeting by our colleague, Al-Ghad’s Tareq Daaja.
Little information is available regarding that. We only have some media reports and vague statements monitored earlier that are not enough to build a mature position on the government’s intentions and plans. This issue requires further probing and follow-up so as to collect additional evidence to verify our conclusions regarding the government’s intention to present a recovery plan in the coming stage.
From among the hundreds of messages monitored lately, the media has only intercepted something sounding like coded phrases, such as “safe summer”, “indicative program”, and “political reform”. What is more worrying is the intercepted message about a “revolution” in investment and public administration, which carries potentially dangerous intentions we have not figured out yet.
What is certain so far, based on data and information traced in investigative pieces of journalism, is that the government is preparing for a giant step, but it is still in the early stage and has not reached the “zero hour”.
There are no records of larger-scope communications, as the economic taskforce is doing its work silently and behind closed doors. The mission is cloaked in secrecy, for fear of leaks.
Some say that all the plans are just ambitions and illusions that will be buried in government offices and that would not, in any case, rise to the level of a “revolution”.
Specialists in the government say that, at the current stage, the priority is to block the road before voices and forces that try to take advantage of the pandemic and its economic repercussions to mobilize the people against the government. That would be followed by a political and economic recovery plan and finally a mobilization effort ending with a comprehensive change involving legislation and the way state agencies are administered.
Is there an actual government plan to adopt a holistic project for political and economic revival?
We do not know. Maybe. But we will continue monitoring and identifying officials’ messages that might confirm or deny this conclusion. Maybe we will have to wait for press conferences or media interviews with concerned ministers to figure out this government scheme and bring an end to the debate, uncertainty among Jordanians, and eradicate rumors by presenting the facts.
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