At the request of the Prime Minister

The resignation of two Jordanian ministers for violating public safety measures

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Interior Minister Samir Mobaideen and Justice Bassam Talhouni, in the Jordanian government, submitted their resignations yesterday, after the Prime Minister asked them to do so, for violating public safety measures during the Corona virus epidemic, and a Jordanian government source revealed that the Prime Minister, Bisher Al-Khasawneh, requested The two ministers are required to resign from their posts for violating defense orders.

The local "Ammon" news site stated that the request came after the two ministers attended a dinner in one of Amman's famous restaurants, exceeding the number allowed on the table, contrary to the defense orders, where the number of attendees was nine, while the procedures stipulate that the number of people at the table should not exceed One is six people.

A statement issued by the royal court, a copy of which was received by Agence France-Presse, announced the approval of the resignation of Bassam Al-Talhouni and Samir Al-Mobaideen. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Administration, Tawfiq Krishan, was assigned to run the Ministry of Interior, and the Minister of State for Legal Affairs, Ahmed Ziyadat, It is managed by the Ministry of Justice, as of yesterday.

Jordan recently tightened its measures after the increase in infections with the Corona virus, as the government decided, last Wednesday, to re-impose the curfew on Fridays, and the government decided to extend the hours of the daily curfew, which was imposed between 12 at night and six in the morning, to 10 At night to six in the morning.

Jordan has recorded, so far, more than 386,000 cases of Coronavirus and 4,675 deaths.

Last March, Jordan banned gatherings of more than 20 people, and closed universities and most schools, before it adopted remote education for most educational levels.

The two ministers attended a dinner, and exceeded the number allowed at the table.

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