MP resigns in protest of speaker’s debate management

AMMAN — MP Hind Fayez resigned from the Lower House on Monday after an altercation between her and House Speaker Atef Tarawneh during the morning session. 

Fayez went into an argument with Tarawneh after he closed the discussion over the number of seats and electoral districts in each governorate during the debate over the draft elections law.

She said she does not accept being a “false witness”  when it comes to debating a very crucial law and demanded that the speaker must respect MPs, threatening to resign. She already submitted the application to Tarawneh during the session after he insisted on not discussing or even listening to what she had to say. 

Tarawneh said that he received the resignation and that he would schedule it on the agenda of the next session, noting that the House has the authority to accept or reject the application in accordance with the Constitution and by-laws.