Study Period:

From the first meeting on 27-12-2010, until the end of the first regular session on 28-03-2011.

• I6th parliament members are more adhered in attending meetings in compare with the previous parliament.
• 4 MPs did not talk during all meetings.
• 14 MPs attended all meetings.

The results of the report issued by the parliament observatory (parliamentjo.net) (AmmanNet Website) regarding 16^th parliament performance during its regular session that MP Mamdouh Abbadi was the best among all the others, in what has to do with evaluation and number of interventions, with 92%. He was followed by Abd Al-Kareem Al-Dughmi with 90%, Mahmoud Kharabsheh 89.5%, Abdullah Al-Nsoor 88%, Khalil Atiyeh 84.5, and Bassam Haddadin.

This performance evaluation, undertaken by a number of daily newspaper reps, has shown that MP Hamad Abu Zaid has the weakest performance with 20.5%. He was followed by Abdullah Nweirat with 21%, Salamah Al-Ghuwairi with 24%, Dirar Al-Daud with 26%, and Khalaf Al-Hweimel with 27%.

This evaluation of such interventions depended on three factors: Being genuine, important, and their effect on MPs.

The report prepared by Hamza Al-Saud mentioned that 4 MPs did not talk at all during the whole three months, so they were not included in the evaluation. These three MPs are Jaafar Alabdallat, Shadi Odwan, Mahmoud Yassin, and Hasan Safi. Another 4 MPs spoke only during trust in government session. They are Dirar Al-Daoud, Mohammad Al-Dhahrawi, Saleh Murjan, and Nidhal Qatameen.

These numbers indicate that there is a huge gap between the current and the previous parliament; during 18 meetings of the exceptional session in the last parliament, 21 MPs did not interfere at all.

This report showed that MP Mahmoud Kharabsheh has the largest number of interventions with 57 times in 29 meeting. He was followed by Khalil Atiyeh and Fawaz Al-Zubi with 28, Al-Dughmi with 27 and Mamdouh Al-Abbadi with 26.

As for the attendance in these meetings, 14 MPs have attended all of the meetings with one female MP among them, Huda Abu Rumman. The number in the previous parliament was 12. The 14 MPs are: Tamer Bino, Jameel Nimri, Kherallah Aqrabawi, Raad bin Tarif, Salem Al-Hidban, Saleh Wreikat, Abd Al-Rahman Hanaqta, Ali Malkawi, Fawaz Manaseer, Mohammad Kooz, Mohammad Shawabkah, Mahmoud Kharabsha, Mahmoud Nueimat, and Huda Abu Rumman.

MP Mahmoud Yassin has the biggest number of absentees with 10 times that are 65% attendance percentage. He was followed by 5 MPs with 9 absentees and 69% percentage of attendance. These MPs are: Ahmad Harara, Amal Al-Rfou, Abdullah Al-Nsoor, Ghazi Alyan, and Mejhem Al-Sqoor. These numbers show that the previous parliament was less committed to attending as 2 MPs did not attend any meeting out of 18.

Parliamentarian blocs

Regarding the parliamentarian blocs, which are 7, the best was Democratic Assembly (8 MPs) with 62.7%, it was followed by Change Bloc (12 MPs) with 51.3%, National Labour (14 MPs) with 47.7%, People Bloc (15 MPs) with 46%, Current Party Bloc (12 MPs) with 42%, Independent Bloc (11 MPs) with 41.5%, and the Accord Bloc (22MPs) with 39.8%.

The Democratic Assembly Bloc was the most one interfered among them all wit 27%. It was followed by the People Bloc with 25%, Change Bloc with 23%, Current Party with 19.5%, Independent with 18%, and the Accord was the least with 17%.

Regarding the commitment with attending the sessions, the People Bloc had the advantage with 92.3% attendance percentage. It was followed by Democratic Assembly Bloc and Democratic Assembly Bloc with 91%, Labour Bloc with 89.3%, Independent with 86%, and both Accord and Change Blocs with 86%.

Women MPs

This report has shown that MP Wafaa bani Mustafa won the best performance with 73.6%. She was followed by Abla Abu Olba with 68%, Nariman Roosan with 67%, and Reem Badran with 64.5%, while the weakest were Asmaa AlRawadyeh, Kholoud Marahleh, and Amal Rofou with 33.5%.

The female MP with the largest number of interventions was Reem Badran with 17, Wafaa bani Mustafa with 16, and Abla Abu Olba with 9. The report also mentioned that Amal Rufou and Kholoud Marahla have only participated 3 times.

As for attending, Abu Rumman was the leading figure. She attended the whole session without missing out any meeting. She was followed with Asma Rawadya, Tamam Riyati, Reem Badran, and Salam Rabadhi with 9 absentees. Amal Rufou in turn was the most to miss out meetings with 9 in her pocket.

Standards of the study

Intervention in quantity:

1. Interventions are calculated in both types; legislative and observatory.
2. Interventions are categorized for every MP by the two types: legislative and observatory.
3. Linguistic interventions and order points are not calculated.
4. Parliament president’s interventions are not calculated.
5. Committees’ presidents or deciders’ interventions are not calculated, nor did its members’ interventions to protect any pass regulation unless it is on the contrary of what another member said.
6. Interventions out of the agenda are not calculated.

Intervention in quality:

1. MPs interventions are evaluated by specialized daily newspapers’ reps after each meeting.
2. Reps rotate in evaluating such interventions, as each meeting is evaluated by a single rep.
3. The average of the interventions at each meeting is taken to evaluate it. The interventions of an MP should be out of 10.
4. Interventions are evaluated according to being genuine, important or effective. The marks are given as follows:

1. • Being genuine (is the idea new?): 3 marks.
   • Importance (the added value of the intervention): 3 marks.
   • Affectivity (effect on voting and rectifying other MPs’ opinions): 4 marks.

1. The evaluation of the MP is calculated according to the interventions’ percentage and value. This happens by giving it a 4 time bigger size of its normal.

Attendance and absenteeism:

• Attendance is taken manually by a rep specialized with the parliamentarian affairs in addition to using a video cam.
• Any MP is registered as attending once he entered the premises, regardless with the fact he stayed or left.