Jordan’s MB appoints Al-Adayla as Secretary-General of Islamic Action Front

By Doaa Imam

The scene in the Kingdom of Jordan returned to what it was before the May elections. At the extraordinary session of its fifth conference, the Brotherhood of Jordan appointed Murad Al-Adayla as the Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front Party (the extension of the Brotherhood in Jordan). Al-Adayla replaces Mohammed al-Ziyud, who died on August 10 because of his health condition due to cancer.

The scene of the selection of a secretary-general as a successor to al-Ziyud was repeated. The competition between Al-Adayla, the one who controlled the important parties in recent years, and Mohamed Akl, the former deputy and interim secretary-general, represented the trend of the reformists.

The dispute between Al-Adayla and Aql is that the former adopts the principle of non-clash with the state, the expansion of the party in all the Jordanian provinces, in addition to its close relationship with party members who adopt the traditional Muslim ideology.

Aql is a former member of the Jordanian parliament, a Palestinian refugee leader, supported by the party’s modernist movement, and has strong relations with Jordanian and Palestinian leaders and follows the same school as Bani Arshid.

The Islamic Action Front (IAF) was founded in the early 1990s and represents the branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. The party classifies itself as the “largest opposition Islamic party” in Jordanian territory. There are other Muslim fronts in the political arena in the Hashemite Kingdom which all emerged from the womb of the mother group.