"Rasid" Announces Evaluation of Jafar Hassan Government's Performance After Two Years of Its Formation

Rasid Report: 70% of MPs rate the government's performance between average and very high

Government after two years: more than a thousand decisions and a continuous path to implement modernization priorities

Completed projects and others under implementation, and the economic modernization vision is advancing in the government's agenda

The Life Center - Rasid announced the results of the evaluation of the performance of Jafar Hassan's government two years after its formation, and the evaluation was based on monitoring the decisions issued by the Council of Ministers, 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 House of Representatives, representing about 86% of the members of the House of Representatives, where the results showed that 5% of the deputies rated 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's life, 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 regressed to some extent, and 9% that it regressed significantly.

Regarding the extent of the House of Representatives' ability to influence the government's decisions and policies 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 moderate 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% were very high, 19% high, 46% average, 22% low, and 10% very low. In political modernization, 4% were very high, 15% high, 30% average, 26% low, and 25% very low.

Regarding dealing with the economic and living challenges facing citizens, including job 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% did 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 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 expected 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 most parties participated in, they showed that 8% of the parties rated the government's performance over 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% improved to some extent, 31% did not change, 19% regressed to some extent, and 11% regressed 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% were high, 46% average, 27% low, and 19% very low, and in political modernization, 8% were high, 12% average, 38% low, and 42% very low.

In dealing with the economic and living challenges facing citizens, including job 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% did 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% would become more cooperative and coordinated, 15% would become more tense, while 4% did not specify an expectation.

Regarding the results of monitoring and evaluating the government's performance 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, at a rate of 20%, while the number of projects under implementation was 56 projects at a rate of 65.9%, and 3 projects had not started at a rate of 3.5%, while the number of delayed projects was 9 projects at a rate of 10.6%.

In monitoring the government's performance two years after its formation, the Life Center - Rasid monitored 1,083 government decisions approved by the Council of Ministers during the monitoring period, and analyzed them according to two classification paths; the first measures the linkage of the decisions to the modernization paths 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' orientation and their distribution over 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, and the percentage of decisions linked to administrative modernization was 19%, while the percentage of decisions linked to political modernization was 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, research, and scientific, investment, industry, and trade, at 7% each, while the percentage of energy and natural resources, transportation and logistics, agriculture and food security was 6%, and the percentage 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 personnel affairs was 76 decisions, and included 99 appointments, including 26 general secretaries and 17 general or executive directors.