Today, Sunday, April 11, Jordanians are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the state, after Prince Abdullah I bin Sharif Al-Hussein announced the establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921.

The Kingdom's celebrations coincided with a disagreement between King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein and his half-brother Prince Hamzah bin Al-Hussein, which almost harms the stability and security of the kingdom - according to the official government statement - and their uncle, the seventieth prince Al-Hassan bin Talal, intervened to solve it and prevent its exacerbation.

What happened within the royal family cast a heavy shadow over the kingdom's celebration of its centenary, according to analysts, charging the centenary climate with negative energy and a state of fear, especially since the crisis and its repercussions are still present, and their final results cannot be predicted.

And the last crisis affected 3 parties, represented by the Palace Institution, the government and Prince Hamzah, in addition to those accused of "conspiring with him", according to the official version. In the current crisis, the palace seemed disturbed by Prince Hamzah's meetings and visits with the Jordanian tribes, and his tweets critical of the political and economic situation and the approach of governance, which is what The so-called "foreign opposition" called for promoting Prince Hamzah as a "substitute for Jordan's King Abdullah II."

This afternoon, King Abdullah II - accompanied by the Crown Prince and princes Hassan, Faisal, Ali, Hamza, Hashem and Rashid - visited the royal shrines on the occasion of the country's centenary.

Prince Hamzah bin Al-Hussein's crisis with his brother King Abdullah II constituted one of the most severe crises Jordan has experienced (Reuters)

Compound pandemic

Faced with this crisis, political analyst Orib Al-Rantawi believes that Jordan is going through "a complex crisis from which the government, the government and the opposition suffer alike. The government suffers from an internal crisis that has dislocated the royal family and its image in front of the Jordanians, and faces this with old tools, without considering the internal causes that led to these." Dysfunction. "

Al-Rantawi said, "Governments lack programs, plans, and a general mandate, and the opposition from parties, unions and civil society institutions lacks a national vision to save Jordan and put it on its right path in its second centenary."

He continued to Al-Jazeera Net, "We are facing a pandemic with 3 directions more dangerous than some of them; health and economic, and the crisis of locking the political path, and to get out of that, the Palace Foundation is calling for a comprehensive reform program that begins with constitutional amendments and renewal of the social contract between the government and the people, and a national government that leads a binding national dialogue."

On the other hand, analysts believe that the history of the Kingdom over the past 100 years cannot be reduced to the current crisis, as Jordan has faced historical turning points that almost destroyed its future, in the midst of a turbulent region, and the conspiracy of neighboring Arab regimes, wars and internal and external conflicts, the most dangerous of which is the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the threat that It still stands as Jordan as an alternative homeland for the Palestinians, despite the signing of the Jordanian-Israeli Peace Treaty 27 years ago.

Undeniable achievements

Faced with the state of fear for the existence of the Jordanian state, former Minister of Administrative Development Dr. Bassam Al-Amoush told Al-Jazeera Net that "the Jordanian state has achieved important achievements over the past 100 years - in various political, economic, social, military and security fields - that cannot be denied, and all of this in the region." Confused, external and sometimes internal conspiracy against the state's being, and modest capabilities. "

Al-Amoush continues, "But after 100 years we aspire to have a genuinely elected parliament that expresses the will of Jordanians without any interference in the elections, real and effective political parties, and real governments elected according to a program based on self-reliance, without resorting to borrowing, without a financial deficit and an increase in debt." Away from sudden governments. "

King Abdullah I, founder of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Getty Images)

Independence march

On May 25, 1946, the United Nations - after the end of the British Mandate - recognized Jordan as an independent and sovereign kingdom, and the Jordanian parliament - at that time - declared Prince Abdullah I as its king, and called him the "founding king", and began establishing the new Jordan.

After the killing of King Abdullah the First in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, his eldest son, King Talal bin Al Hussein, took power, and after less than two years, King Hussein bin Talal received the king from 1952 until his death in 1999, after which King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein assumed power, registering the fourth king of the Kingdom. The Hashemite Jordanian.

Stormy crises

Political analyst Hussein Rawashdeh says that Jordan has managed - over a period of 100 years - to "overcome stormy crises, lost wars, and the era of the Arab Spring, and was able to restore Arab dignity by its victory over the Israeli occupation in the battle of dignity, and it became a source of expertise, and the Jordanians were able to build a state that has a role." Geopolitical in the region, and enjoys a network of Arab, regional and international relations. "

On the other hand, Al-Rawashda continues his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, "We have witnessed some retreat in the infrastructure, especially in the fields of health, education and public administration, and we have witnessed the stopping of the political work machine, and the shrinking of the circle of political participation. We can no longer produce new political elites, and our political parties have faced a state of stalemate." Unfortunately, parliaments no longer express the pulse of Jordanians, with the exception of the Parliament in 1989, which requires us to launch a reform project that guarantees the raising of Jordanians ’enthusiasm, the renewal of hope and optimism for the future, and increases their level of confidence in their official institutions.

Jordan witnessed a wide popular movement that ended with the completion of some political reforms (Al-Jazeera)

The reform march

The process of political reform has passed through various stages during the past 100 years, most notably the National Socialist Party in 1956 to form the first parliamentary government in Jordan's history, after an alliance with nationalist and left-wing parties, but the experiment lasted only less than a year.

Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Administration Tawfiq Krishan confirms that the process of political reform "continues without stopping, and culminated in the initiative of King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein to form the National Dialogue Committee in 2011, which was tasked with conducting a national dialogue on political and economic reform, and Jordan was able to transform what was called the Spring." Al-Arabi to reform and develop the political process, and this was represented by the constitutional amendments in 2011, to ensure separation of powers, protection of public rights and freedoms, the establishment of a constitutional court and an independent election commission, and a road map for political reform.

During the life of the Jordanian state, 100 governments were formed, and the average of the government’s continued work in its general mandate was 9 months, some of which lasted two days, including 3 months, and the longest lasted 4 years.

Today, after 100 years, Jordan is still searching for legislations that regulate political life, and calls for reconsideration of election laws and parties to develop political life in the Kingdom.