Amman – The “Civil Alliance to Fight Corruption” held a consultative session on Monday evening 9/14/2015 at the Amman Chamber of  Commerce to discuss the recommendations of the Jordanian Transparency Center on the “Integrity and Anti-Corruption” draft law, which is on the agenda of the second special session of the current council.

The meeting was attended by a number of representatives of civil society institutions, jurists, media professionals, individuals against corruption, and a number of deputies.

Hilda Ajeilat, head of the Jordanian Transparency Center, which organized the meeting, said: “This meeting comes at the right time and at an important constitutional stage to make our voice heard and communicate our observationsand demands to decision-makers to take appropriate amendments and additions to a draft law that has become the most necessary in finding appropriate reforms and legislation to combat corruption that has exhausted the state. ” Jordan and its governments.

Ajeilat indicated that the alliance began to grow and the base of participation in it began to expand in a qualitative manner thanks to the efforts made by its members.

She pointed out that the coalition delivered its recommendations and observations on the draft law in a joint session between a number of coalition members and the Legal Committee of the House of Representatives, noting that this session was in Parliament a short time ago during the preparation of the lawand the emergence of its features.

Ajeilat demanded that corruption not beoverturned by statute of limitations, activating precautionary detention, criminalizing the international employee and the foreign employee, and appending bribery crimes to the project.

Journalist Abdel Nasser Al-Zoubi presented a summary of the launch of the coalition, which was announced on the occasion of the International AntiCorruption Day on 09/12/2012 AD. Al-Zoubi indicated that the coalition included 23 civil society institutions and more than 20 activists from legal, media and youth institutions.

He explained that the members of the coalition are institutions and individuals who are volunteers without compensation. He called on the audience to join this coalition calling for the fight against corruption, which has become a concern for Jordanians and their country.

Lawyer Fawaz Al-Shobaki, member of the administrative board of the Jordanian Transparency Center, read out the center’s recommendations to the audience, of which he handed a copy to Deputy Dr. Lawyer Al-Shobaki raised the issue of social security funds and the Social Security Investment Fund, and asked where are they from the draft law? He pointed out that in light of the government’s responsibility for the financial position of the Social Security Corporation, there are very serious loopholes in the law, especially that the institution’s financial resources are not clearly defined as public money.

Lawyer Safwan Al-Majali added, presenting part of the Center’s observations to the audience, and indicated that many of the loopholes and negatives of the project, which he described as emptying the next law of its content and rendering him helpless and a minor before he came out to life, are conclusive evidence that this project was hastily developed without any consideration.

The intervening attendees praised the center’s recommendations, and Judge Ali Al-Damour, a former member of the Anti-Corruption Commission, presented his intervention, in which he rejected all what he described as the apparent disregard and lack of seriousness in the details of the project. In the Commission and the Court, he was surprised that they were not involved when preparing the draft law.

Al-Armouti added that the project first appeared as a project to strengthen the role of the Board of Grievances, then suddenly disappeared to return in a new dress, the dress of integration, which the National Assembly had previously rejected by a vote in a joint session of the two parliaments, which means that there is Something alive, you sold.

They emphasized the flaw in the structure of the project, which did not merge the work of the two bodies, but kept them separate within the same law, which indicates the absence of vision regarding the purpose of the merger.. In the same context, Ratib Al-Nawaisa and Dr. Muhammad Obeidat participated in the attendees with their important observations effectively and with interest.

The members of the coalition valued the participation of Representatives Tariq Khoury, Hind Al-Fayez and Mustafa Al-Amawi, which came in support of these recommendations and the position of the coalition.
The Civil Alliance to Combat Corruption expressed its thanks to everyone who attended its most important event yesterday evening, and the presence of interested individuals and relevant institutions and participation in the large number and quality was a relief to the members of the coalition, considering this a great appreciation for their keenness to raise public affairs and the independence of the authorities. The coalition also thanked all the interested attendees who support the hoped-for recommendations Taking it intoconsideration when the project proceeds through its constitutional channels, discussing it under the dome of Parliament, and appending it to legislation thatwill enhance integrity and combat corruption that has troubled Jordanians over recent years.

The conferees recorded several observations that are among the recommendations of the coalition, including dropping some texts demanded by the Anti-Corruption Commission in the recent amendments to the Commission’s previous law, including criminalization and statute of limitations… and dropping other texts that were present in the Commission’s law, which are in line with the spirit and provisions of the International Convention against Corruption.

Corruption The draft did not specify how a member of the commission would be terminated within or after four years.

The conferees demanded the appointment of the head of the council (the Anticorruption Council) and its link to the legislative body, not the executive, to ensure independence and impartiality, and to cancel the link of the commission to the prime minister, provided that the person with the authority to appoint is the one who has the right to terminate membership.

The media coordinator called on all segments of the Jordanian political and social society to join the Jordanian Civil Alliance to Fight Corruption to direct the direction together in the direction that serves the country and its safety and the safety of its citizens and all state institutions. He explained that there are the coalition’s Facebook pages that can be communicated through, as well as via WhatsApp on the phone number: (00962772100248) and that there is a media campaign in partnership with the Jordanian media, parties and political movement that will be known as this civil coalition.