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 - Sources within the Islamist movement said that former General Regulator of the Muslim Brotherhood, Salem Falahat, is the candidate most likely to win the position of Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's most prominent opposition party, after former Secretary General Zaki Bani Ersheid declined to run for the position, Al Arab Al Yawm reported.
IAF is gearing up for internal elections, which the party hopes will settle much of the tensions that have characterized relations among high ranking members within the party in the past few years.
Several resignations within IAF's Executive Bureau lately came in protest of the decision to prevent 200 new members from voting in the Shura (consultation) Council elections, presenting a possibility of delaying elections, which were supposed to be held in Mid March.
IAF's Secretary General, Dr. Ishaq Farhan, said in a statement to 'Al Arab Al Yawm' that only two members of the Executive Bureau submitted their resignation (Ibrahim Khreisat and Muhammad Al Zayudi) in protest of the decision not to allow the new members to participate in the upcoming elections.
Farhan noted that resignations and appeals submitted to the party's judiciary will not push for delaying the election date.
The decision regarding elections participation reflects some of the differences between the party's currents, the hawks and the doves, which revolves around the referential authority of the political party, where the Hawks hold to the edict of Dr. Muhammad Abu Faris that IAF is a part of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood and that all IAF decisions must be presented before the Brotherhood's Shura Council, whereas the Doves push for IAF's independence from the Brotherhood organization.
Political observers and sources inside the Islamist movement stress that characterizing and categorizing members of the movement into 'Hawks' and 'Doves' is merely a mechanism for outside forces to exacerbate and exaggerate tensions within the movement and came to be terms used frequently by the media and political powers to influence internal relations within the movement, considering the wide base of supporters the movement enjoys among conservative strata within Jordanian society.
The position of Secretary General to head the IAF is the most controversial and critical point for the upcoming elections, especially that the current provisional Secretary General, Dr. Ishaq Farhan, was appointed to the post after the sudden resignation of Zaki Bani Ersheid during an emergency session for the Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council.
ammonnews / banan malkawi
2/15/2010 6:04:30 AM
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