Thursday, November 29, 2007

Funny snapshots from Jordan's parliamentary election


Till now, the Ministry of Interior Affairs refuses officially to post all the number of votes that losers in the last election got. Security and order concerns might have compelled the Ministry to do so, as well as the "save face" concept. A cultural concept that is well-established in our tribal society where winners do not brag about their victory and give a space to losers to gather their pride again in the eye of the public.

However and according to Alquds Alarabi, there has been a leak aboutthe number of votes that losing candidates gained in the last election and some of the results are really funny.
Take for example Mohamed Alqaran who had 0 votes. Another word, the guy did not vote for himself! We had a similar experience in the municipality election but the candidate was a woman and she did not need any votes to be elected according to the quota system. So what Mr. Qaran was thinking? I mean one can write a PH dissertation in psychology to explore why would someone run to the election and refuse to vote for himself.
Other results are puzzling as well and need to be studied by sociologists whom by the way might need help themselves to understand the complicated Jordanian culture. Take for example Dr. Sari Naser; a well known sociologist and well known author. Dr. Naser received only 125 votes. Well, may be Dr. Naser should have known better our society by now. That could be another book to publish Dr. Naser.
On the celebrity side, Aroub Soboh; a young beautiful TV host, who is well known in Jordan and the Arab World for her children TV shows. Unfortunately, Aroub did not get more than 250 votes. Too bad children can't vote; otherwise, Aroub could have been our new Prime Minister. And finally, Naser Ghandour, the previous gallkeeper of Al-Wihdat club and the National Soccer team. Ghandour had 259 people voting for him. Unfortunately, the huge popularity of Wihdad club did not help much. May be he should have run when Al-Wihdat club was preforming better in the National League. Anyway, there is no such thing as losing. To all the losers out there. The bottom line is this. If you spent a lot of money, your labor is not in vain and you helped distributing the wealth equally in the Jordanian society. If you did not spend any money, you did not really lose.

4 comments:

الاردني الحر said...

الي متي مسرحيه الانتخابات البرلمانيه الهزيله والمزيفه ستنتهي؟؟؟

Salim said...

Alarudni,
I do not know brother but you sound very angry. The election is not perfect but it was to have it. Democracy is a process. None of the developed nations became deomcratic over night. The more elections we have, the better people are aware about the process, irreuglarities with the process and so on.

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