Jordan: Islamic Action Front to run in parliament polls

AMMAN

Jordan's Islamic Action Front announced on Monday it will run in the parliamentary elections slated for Nov. 10.

The announcement came in a press conference in the capital Amman by the party’s deputy secretary general, Wael al-Sakka.

The decision comes a day after Jordanian authorities on Sunday arrested the executive director of the party’s central election committee, Badi al-Rafiah, on charges of "insulting the president of a friendly country."

After boycotting elections in 2010 and 2013, the party competed in the 2016 polls under the National Reform Alliance and won 14 seats out of 130.

*Writing by Mahmoud Barakat