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….it is being reported that King Abdullah II has dismissed his government due to the street protests which started on Tuesday over prices and reforms. They’ve protested in previous weeks but today the people took it up a notch.
Jordanians had been calling for the resignation of prime minister Samir Rifai who is blamed for a rise in fuel and food prices and slowed political reforms.
A Jordanian official said the monarch officially accepted the resignation of Rifai, a wealthy politician and former court adviser, and asked Marouf Bakhit to form a new cabinet."[Bakhit] is a former general and briefly ambassador to Israel who has been prime minister before. He's someone who would be seen as a safe pair of hands," Rosemary Hollis, professor of Middle East policy studies at London's City University, said. Al Jazeera
Many of the people of Jordan are getting bolder after having watched the Egyptian citizens take on the establishment there with some pretty good results. Jordanians blame free market corruption for the sad state the poor in the country.
Sort of like what has been going on in the United States with the middle class and the poor.
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