AMMAN - Jordan said on Tuesday it will hold parliamentary elections on November 9, nearly a month after endorsing a new law that kept a controversial one-person-one-vote system.
“The council of minister decided at a meeting today to hold the parliamentary elections on November 9,” the state-run Petra news agency reported without elaborating.
Jordan approved a new election law on May 18, increasing the number of lower house seats from 110 to 120 and doubles a quota for women MPs to 12, while (...)
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