Observer: The Cabinet approved 1083 decisions in two years.. half of them for economic modernization
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The Life Center - Rasid announced the results of an evaluation of the performance of the government of Jafar Hassan after two years of its formation, and the evaluation was based on monitoring the decisions issued by the Cabinet, and following up on the projects of the Economic Modernization Vision for the year 2026, in addition to two surveys of the opinions of the twenty members of the House of Representatives and the Jordanian political parties.
118 deputies participated in the survey of the deputies, which is equivalent to about 86% of the members of the House of Representatives, where the results showed that 5% of the deputies evaluated the overall government performance during the two years as very high, 27% as high, 37% as average, 25% as low, and 6% as very low, and compared to the first year of the government, 9% of the deputies saw that the government performance during the second year improved significantly, 35% that it improved to some extent, 36% that it did not change, while 11% saw that it declined to some extent, and 9% that it declined significantly.
Regarding the extent of the ability of the House of Representatives to influence the decisions and policies of the government during the past two years, 3% of the deputies believed that the Council was able to influence to a very large degree, 10% to a large degree, 31% to a medium degree, while 36% believed that the influence was limited, and 20% limited or no influence.
In evaluating the implementation of the targets and priorities of the Economic Modernization Vision, 4% of the deputies said the performance was very high, 21% high, 31% average, 31% low, and 13% very low. In updating the public sector and improving the efficiency of government services, 3% very high, 19% high, 46% average, 22% low, and 10% very low. In political modernization, 4% very high, 15% high, 30% average, 26% low, and 25% very low.
In dealing with the economic and living challenges facing citizens, including employment opportunities and the cost of living, 4% of the deputies said the performance was very high, 4% high, 29% average, 34% low, and 29% very low. Regarding the continuation of the government approach in the next phase, 6% supported its continuation as is, 54% its continuation with amendments, while 35% said they do not support its continuation, and 5% did not specify an opinion.
Regarding the continuation of the ministerial team, 6% of the deputies supported its continuation as is without amendments, 29% of the deputies supported its continuation with limited amendment, 31% saw the need to amend the team and include parties within the government formation, while 34% saw the need for a wide amendment. If the government continues in its third year, 47% of the deputies expect the relationship between it and the House of Representatives to remain approximately the same, 19% to become more cooperative and coordinated, 28% to become more tense, while 7% did not specify an expectation.
As for the results of the survey of political parties, which was participated by most parties, they showed that 8% of the parties evaluated the performance of the government during the two years as very high, 15% as high, 46% as average, and 31% as low. Compared to the first year, 8% saw that the performance in the second year improved significantly, 31% that it improved to some extent, 31% that it did not change, 19% that it declined to some extent, and 11% that it declined significantly.
In evaluating the implementation of the targets and priorities of the Economic Modernization Vision, 8% of the parties said the performance was very high, 8% high, 38% average, 35% low, and 11% very low. In updating the public sector and improving the efficiency of government services, 8% said the performance was high, 46% average, 27% low, and 19% very low, and in political modernization, 8% high, 12% average, 38% low, and 42% very low.
In dealing with the economic and living challenges facing citizens, including employment opportunities and the cost of living, 4% of the parties said the performance was very high, 15% average, 27% low, and 54% very low.
Regarding the continuation of the government approach in the next phase, 27% supported its continuation with amendments, and 65% said they do not support its continuation, while 8% did not specify an opinion.
Regarding the ministerial team, 15% of the parties supported its continuation with limited amendment, 31% saw the need for a wide amendment, while 54% saw the need to amend the team and include parties within the government formation, and in the expectation of the relationship between the government and the House of Representatives during the third year, 69% of the parties said it would remain approximately the same, 12% that it would become more cooperative and coordinated, 15% that it would become more tense, while 4% did not specify an expectation.
Regarding the results of monitoring and evaluating the performance of the government in implementing the projects of the Economic Modernization Vision scheduled to be implemented during 2026, it showed that 17 projects were completed out of 85 projects scheduled to be implemented during this year, which is 20%, while the number of projects under implementation was 56 projects at 65.9%, and 3 projects not yet implemented at 3.5%, while the number of delayed projects was 9 projects at 10.6%.
In its follow-up of the government's performance after two years of its formation, the Life Center - Rasid monitored 1,083 government decisions approved by the Cabinet during the monitoring period, and analyzed them according to two classification paths; the first measures the connection of the decisions with the paths of modernization and government priorities, and the second classifies them according to the thematic fields and sectors they addressed, which allows reading the nature of the government decisions and their distribution during the two years.
At the analytical path level, the results showed that economic modernization accounted for the largest share of the monitored decisions at 51%, while 28% of the decisions were within sectoral priorities or across paths, the percentage of decisions linked to administrative modernization reached 19%, while the percentage of decisions linked to political modernization reached 2%.
According to the main thematic field, updating administration and digital services came first at 15%, followed by the field of public finance, taxes, and customs at 11%, then education and scientific research, and investment, industry, and trade, at 7% each, while the percentage of each of energy and natural resources, and transport and logistics was 6%, and agriculture and food security was 6%, while the percentage of each of tourism and antiquities, labor, employment, and social security, water and sanitation, infrastructure, housing, and services, and foreign relations and international cooperation was 4%.
The number of decisions related to appointments and leadership employment matters was 76, and included 99 appointments, including 26 general secretaries and 17 general or executive directors.
