"The King is the most reformist of all." The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, left the audience with Abdullah II believes that the Hashemite monarch intends to undertake deep reforms in the Jordanian regime. He has not done in 12 years at the throne, but the riots in the Arab world, which have also spread to their country, have made him move.
On February 1 accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, and appointed Marouf Bakhit, in order to undertake "real economic and political reforms." He also created a committee of national dialogue that took three months to prepare an electoral reform and a law of parties. The minister has welcomed these measures and expressed support for the process of change by Spain and the EU, with which Jordan has just reached a partnership agreement that progress becomes a privileged partner of the EU.
Not everyone is so enthusiastic and the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the main opposition group, has announced that it will continue the demonstrations until a constitutional monarchy. Jordan is far from it. The King holds the executive and Parliament is not representative. "The road is still long," admits Jimenez.
The Jordanian authorities claim to investment and economic support, aware that unemployment and poverty are at the root of discontent. Arab regimes have chosen different paths to popular mobilization. Tunisia and Egypt has disposed of his autocratic, while Libya and Bahrain, among others, have chosen to crush.
Like Syria, yesterday detained 25 opposition, even though Jimenez suggested, after his meeting with Bashar al-Assad, it will also undertake reforms. Those who do the ads are the kings of Morocco and Jordan, although its scope is yet to be tested. The Arab street lives the situation in neighboring countries as their own.
Upon his arrival in Beirut, the head of Spanish diplomacy has met with a city jammed with Hezbollah demonstration in solidarity with the Shia of Bahrain. Jimenez has avoided condemning the entry of Saudi troops in the emirate and has merely reiterated that responds to an agreement of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which Gaddafi condemns but does not hesitate to repress their own revolts.
Lebanon, meanwhile, sorts its own instability. The new prime minister, Najib Mikati, elected on January 25 with the support of Hezbollah, has yet to form a government, so it is still in office his predecessor, Saad Hariri. Jimenez had planned to meet yesterday with both but could not meet with Hariri and had to settle with former Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's pro-Western coalition also March 14.
The process opened by the international tribunal on the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, in which defendants are alleged members of Hezbollah, but the indictment was kept secret, planned as a sword of Damocles over the country's future. The judge's decision to extend the measures can take a few months of respite.
O prolong instability. 
On February 1 accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, and appointed Marouf Bakhit, in order to undertake "real economic and political reforms." He also created a committee of national dialogue that took three months to prepare an electoral reform and a law of parties. The minister has welcomed these measures and expressed support for the process of change by Spain and the EU, with which Jordan has just reached a partnership agreement that progress becomes a privileged partner of the EU.
Not everyone is so enthusiastic and the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the main opposition group, has announced that it will continue the demonstrations until a constitutional monarchy. Jordan is far from it. The King holds the executive and Parliament is not representative. "The road is still long," admits Jimenez.
The Jordanian authorities claim to investment and economic support, aware that unemployment and poverty are at the root of discontent. Arab regimes have chosen different paths to popular mobilization. Tunisia and Egypt has disposed of his autocratic, while Libya and Bahrain, among others, have chosen to crush.
Like Syria, yesterday detained 25 opposition, even though Jimenez suggested, after his meeting with Bashar al-Assad, it will also undertake reforms. Those who do the ads are the kings of Morocco and Jordan, although its scope is yet to be tested. The Arab street lives the situation in neighboring countries as their own.
Upon his arrival in Beirut, the head of Spanish diplomacy has met with a city jammed with Hezbollah demonstration in solidarity with the Shia of Bahrain. Jimenez has avoided condemning the entry of Saudi troops in the emirate and has merely reiterated that responds to an agreement of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which Gaddafi condemns but does not hesitate to repress their own revolts.
Lebanon, meanwhile, sorts its own instability. The new prime minister, Najib Mikati, elected on January 25 with the support of Hezbollah, has yet to form a government, so it is still in office his predecessor, Saad Hariri. Jimenez had planned to meet yesterday with both but could not meet with Hariri and had to settle with former Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's pro-Western coalition also March 14.
The process opened by the international tribunal on the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, in which defendants are alleged members of Hezbollah, but the indictment was kept secret, planned as a sword of Damocles over the country's future. The judge's decision to extend the measures can take a few months of respite.
O prolong instability.
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