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Parties are part of the economic modernization structure

However, the economic policy requires a comprehensive and bolder review towards reforming the structural and deep imbalance in the Jordanian economy, related to its productivity and ability to grow in a way that can deal with the crises of living conditions and unemployment. The fundamental question is about the economy's ability to attract foreign investments in fields that create added value within it, and make growth move from aggregate indicators to the lives of Jordanians through job opportunities, improving incomes, and expanding the productive base, instead of the state continuously facing unemployment and living pressures through limited tools that do not address the root of the problem.

Achieving a quantitative and qualitative leap forward is not within the reach of any government alone, because it is an act that must rely on open laws and legislation enacted by the House of Representatives. In reality, the weakness of the programmatic infrastructure within the Council makes economic legislation susceptible to individual and local calculations, at a time when parties with programs capable of formulating packages of laws and legislation supporting investment, and providing cover for the government official towards exiting the negativity he suffers from in the face of multiple levels of criticism and media and public pressure.

Within this picture, parties are no longer a political actor within the political modernization system only, but become a necessary requirement for economic reform, as what is required goes beyond updating tools to reforming a structural imbalance that has its social dimensions, and needs a parliamentary council capable of bearing its responsibilities, and parties that can present clear economic options and defend them before the citizens.

The transition to a productive economy requires a political and cultural act that moves the citizen from the position of a beneficiary to a partner, through political representation that establishes the construction of economic priorities, and makes parties and parliament partners in bearing the responsibility of decisions and holding governments accountable for their results, because economic reform is ultimately not just a set of technical decisions, but social choices that need someone to bear their political responsibility.

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