النظام القانوني للأحزاب السياسية في الأردن: دراسة مقارنة

Abstract

This study is a critical and comparative analysis of the legal system for political parties in Jordan. It covers the provisions relating to the right to establish political parties in the new Jordanian Political Parties Law No. (39) of 2015, which replaced the old law of 2012. The study focuses on the rules in the 2015 law defining a political party and the legal procedures for establishing one. The rules were designed to promote the principle of independence of political parties. For this purpose, a Committee for the Affairs of Political Parties was set up to decide on the registration of political parties. The study also addresses the rules relating to the funding of political parties in Jordan, which impose objective restrictions on the right of political parties to receive gifts and donations from both national and foreign donors. This study also touches on the rules governing the resolutions of political parties, which were aimed at limiting legislative power over the fate of political parties in favour of giving the judiciary the upper hand to decide on the resolutions of political parties. The provisions in the Jordanian law of 2015 will be compared with their counterparts in other Arab laws in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the Jordanian law, and to try to benefit from the experience of other Arab countries in the field of preserving the constitutional right of establishing political parties.