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Summary Parliaments are currently elected under laws that ensure a pliant pro-government assembly.
Jordans King Abdullah said that he was committed to pushing ahead with democratic reforms, but believed street pressure for change was a recipe for chaos.The monarch, speaking in a televised speech marking his 12 years as ruler and ninety years of the states creation, said he backed a new electoral law proposed by a government-appointed panel that would allow for a cabinet to be elected by a parliamentary majority rather than being chosen by him.Regarding political reform in particular, we say we will rely on the agreed recommendations of the national dialogue committee towards elections and political parties laws that meet expectations of Jordanians and guarantee the introduction of a modern election laws to establish a representative parliament to all Jordanians and approved by them, he said.
