Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Under pressure, the Jordanian king dissolved the discredited Government

The popular pop that runs the Arab world claimed its first political victim in Jordan. King Abdullah II dissolved the Jordanian government discredited and appointed a new prime minister. With this move, the monarch is fulfilling one of the main demands of the thousands of demonstrators who, inspired by Egyptian and Tunisian protests, they go out every Friday after prayers in Jordan.

Abdullah was appointed prime minister Maaruf Bakhit, replacing Samir Rifai, but the Islamists believe that the replacement "is not reformist" and promised further demonstrations. Bakhit, a former strongman of the country's military intelligence, and with a reputation for honest, be responsible to "take concrete steps to political, economic and social." The Islamic and leftist opposition had organized demonstrations in recent weeks against the high cost and to demand reforms, criticizing the economic policy Rifai.

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