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February 26, 2026 at 8:42 am
Jordanian police close the entrance of a Muslim Brotherhood headquarter after the announcement of banning the society in the country on April 23, 2025 in Amman, Jordan. [Salah Malkawi/Getty Images]
The Independent Election Commission said on Wednesday that it has instructed the Islamic Action Front party to change its name to remove “any religious, sectarian or ethnic connotations”.
In a statement, the Commission’s Board of Commissioners said it had formally notified the Islamic Action Front — the political arm of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group — that it must correct the violations within 60 days of the notification, in line with Article 33 of the Political Parties Law No. 7 of 2022.
The statement added that the party had previously been informed of the violations in a letter dated 17th February.
According to the Commission, the breach concerns the party’s internal statute and its name, which it said contravene the Political Parties Law. The law stipulates that a party may not be founded on religious, sectarian, ethnic or factional grounds, nor on the basis of discrimination due to gender or origin.
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The Commission said a party’s name forms an integral part of its statute and reflects its political identity, and must therefore be free of any religious, sectarian, ethnic or discriminatory references.
It also pointed to other violations related to the mechanism for forming the party’s Supreme Court and Central Court, noting that they were not elected by the general conference. This, it said, runs counter to standards of good governance and affects their independence.
The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, is one of the country’s main political and opposition parties. The group’s activities were banned in April 2025.
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