Country · JO
Jordan
الأردن ירדן4 parties on file · 1 currently in government
Timeline · 2 events
Region timeline →-
Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election
In Jordan''s general election on 10 September 2024, the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, won 31 of 138 seats — more than any other party and its strongest result since 1989, with observers linking the gains to its stance on the Gaza war. Turnout was about 32 percent and the IAF stayed well short of a majority.
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Jordan: Islamic Action Front wins biggest opposition bloc since the 1989 thaw
Jordan's first elections under a reformed party law gave the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing — the Islamic Action Front — 31 of 138 lower-house seats, its strongest showing in three decades. The vote came eleven months into the Gaza war, with Jordanians increasingly angry at the government's management of the relationship with Israel; the IAF campaigned almost entirely on solidarity with Gaza. Turnout was 32%, low by international standards, high by recent Jordanian ones.
Marquee bills
All bills →Compass · Jordan
Country mean — Economic -1.0, Social -1.9
Ringed dots are parties currently in government. See the full regional compass · hand-coded estimates; methodology.
Current leadership
- Head of state In gov
King Abdullah II عبد الله الثاني
Independent
King of Jordan since 1999; head of the Hashemite Kingdom. The monarchy holds executive primacy in Jordan's political system.
- Head of government In gov
Jafar Hassan جعفر حسان
Independent
Prime Minister of Jordan since September 2024; technocratic appointee with a background in development economics.
- Party leader
Murad Adaileh مراد العضايلة
Islamic Action Front
Secretary General of Jordan's Islamic Action Front (the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood). Led the IAF to its largest parliamentary delegation in two decades after the 2024 elections.
- Party leader
Wael Saqqa وائل السقا
Islamic Action Front
Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Front since 2024 — leading Jordan's largest opposition bloc through its strongest electoral showing in three decades. Lawyer and former deputy; took over the role weeks before the September elections and rode the IAF's Gaza-solidarity campaign to 31 seats.
- Other In gov
Prince Hussein bin Abdullah الأمير الحسين بن عبدالله
Independent
Crown Prince of Jordan; heir apparent. Married in 2023 to Saudi national Rajwa al-Saif; increasingly central in royal-diplomatic representation.
Parties
- Islamic Action Front جبهة العمل الإسلامي
Led by · Murad Adailah
Political wing of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Won the largest opposition share in the 2024 parliamentary elections.
- Jordanian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي الأردني
Led by · Faraj Atallah
Marxist-Leninist party with deep roots in mid-20th-century Arab leftist politics; currently small but active.
- National Charter Party حزب الميثاق الوطني
Led by · various leadership council
Pro-government nationalist party formed after the 2022 political modernization reforms.
- Reform Party حزب الإصلاح
Led by · Abdullah al-Naouasrah
Reformist-civic party emerging from the 2022 modernization process, advocating for liberal-democratic reforms within the monarchy.
Source documents · 12
All docs →- النظام الأساسي — المادة الثالثة: أهداف الحزب (Basic Statute of the Islamic Action Front, Art. 3 — now 'Hizb al-Umma') 180 words
- King Abdullah II address to the 80th UN General Assembly, 23 Sep 2025 702 words
- Islamic Action Front — statement endorsing the 18 October 2024 Dead Sea cross-border attack on Israeli forces (DAWN English translation of the Arabic communiqué) 303 words
- King Abdullah II address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2024 1476 words
- Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election (10 Sep 2024) 73 words
- King Abdullah II address to the 77th UN General Assembly, 20 Sep 2022 989 words
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Jordan [Country profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/JO
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Jordan." Country profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/JO.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-country-jo,
title = {{Jordan}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Country profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/JO},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.