Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 39)
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- Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 39)
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The statement further called for
amending the constitution in a way that
insures: (1) freezing the West Bank’s
representation in the Jordanian Parlia-
ment; (2) increasing the representatives
of the East Bank; and (3) holding free
Jordanian Parliament in session
and democratic general elections in the
East Bank only.
Traditionalists elected
The result of the election showed
the correctness of the position of boycot-
ting. The only beneficiary was the
Hashemite monarchy which enacted
this sham of democracy to promote its
own political plans which are contradic-
tory to the interests of the people. For
one, the elections occurred in an atmos-
phere characterized by tribalism and
sectarianism, which the regime con-
stantly fosters to maintain its own power
through distortion of the social structure
of the country. Those who won the con-
tested seats were from the traditional
base of the regime. Moreover, the elec-
tion procedure itself was fraudulent in
terms of registration and vote-counting.
This was made clear in the statement
which six candidates submitted to the
chairman of the parliament after the
election. In this statement, the candi-
dates discredited the registration and
vote-counting procedures in Balka pro-
vince.
We have no illusions that the
nationalist and democratic forces can
make gains in the context of the pseudo-
democracy offered by the Hashemite
monarchy. Rather, such elections must
be opposed as the sham that they are.
Instead, there must be struggle for real
democracy with freedom of expression
and the press, the right to organize trade
unions and political parties, and abroga-
tion of the Exceptional Military Law, to
enable the masses in Jordan to exert
their nationalist role in accordance with
the freedom and independence of Jor-
dan. @
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