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General elections were held in Jordan on 17 June 2003. They were the fourth contest held after the political liberalization started in 1989 and the first elections to take place since 1997. The number of voters who cast their ballots constituted almost 58.8 percent of registered voters, a record high in the last years, who total 2,325,496 of the country's 5.4 million citizens. The Kingdom's most prominent tribal representatives carried a large majority of the seats. The highest turnout, 86 percent, was registered in Karak, while the lowest ratio of voters, 44.62 percent, was in Amman.〔(Jordanian Elections 2003 ), Jordanian Embassy, Washington D.C.〕 ==Political Climate in the Region== The elections were first scheduled for November 2001, but were delayed due to political instability in the region. In fact, the second Intifada started on September 28, 2000 and King Abdullah found it adequate to defer the parliamentary elections, the Jordanian constitution allows the monarch to postpone the elections for a maximum of two years. The parliament was also solved by a Royal Decree in 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jordanian general election, 2003」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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