The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), achieved a significant victory in Jordan’s historic parliamentary elections this week, winning the most votes while falling short of a majority.
For the first time in the country’s history, voting was conducted using a proportional representation system, after years of criticism of the “one-man one-vote” structure, seen to favour tribal affiliations over political parties.
The IAF won 31 out of 138 seats in the Jordanian parliament, tripling its representation from the 2020 elections.
This marks the largest victory for Islamists in the country since 1989, when the Muslim Brotherhood gained 22 out of 80 seats in parliament.
Murad al-Adaileh, the IAF’s secretary general, told Middle East Eye that his party’s success was a result of both its performance in the previous parliament and its pro-Palestinian stance amid Israel’s war on Gaza. ….more
