AMMAN —
To complete the observation of the 2022 municipal and provincial council
elections,
Rased Jordan Center carried out a study on the orientation of
Jordanians for municipal and provincial council elections, the study had
carried out from January 6–21 2022. The number of responders reached 3,116 and
were distributed around the Kingdom.
اضافة اعلان
The study showed
that 23.3 percent of Jordanians intend to take part in the municipal elections,
while 60.9 percent do not intend to participate in the upcoming elections, and
those who have not yet decided on whether or not they participate have reached
15.9 percent.
As for the
reasons on which respondents intended to participate, it turned out that 37
percent said it was their right as citizens that motivated them to participate,
18.6 percent said they believed their participation will evolve the path of
local development, while 17 percent said that their participation was in
support of a particular candidate, 22.4 percent said that their reason for
participating was family or clan orientated. According to 3 percent the reason
for their participation is interest linked to some of the candidates, and only
2 percent said that the reason for participation was to support a certain
political current.
As for those who decided
to refrain from voting; 31.7 percent of them said that none of the candidates
are worthy of my vote. While 30.4 percent said they didn’t think elected
councils will be effective, 20.2 percent said that they are not interested in
the elections, and 16.1 percent said that their reason for not participating
was that the elections will not be fair.
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