Jordan held its parliamentary elections on January 23 rd amidst much criticism and skepticism from political opponents. The modified 2012 Elections Law, which maintained the Single Non Transferable Vote (also known as the one man one vote system), but introduced new national-level lists, is still rejected by political opponents. Long is the list criticizing the Elections Law, where political activists are demanding just representation of political parties. This notion of political injustice is fed by the 30 year old ban on political parties (from 1957 to 1989). Rightfully do opposition parties, whether Islamists, communists, socialists and pan-Arabists, complain about the design of the Elections Law and the division of constituencies, where the former promotes voting for tribal members rather than political candidates and the latter strengthens the representation of loyalist Jordanians at the expense of Jordanians from Palestinian origins and political p