Khaberni - Laith Nasrawin, the Dean of the Graduate Studies Faculty at Jordan University, stated on Wednesday that MP Mohammad Al-Jarrah lost his membership in the Parliament after the Higher Administrative Court upheld the decision of the administrative court to dismiss Al-Jarrah from the Labor Party.
He added that the Jordanian judiciary supported the legality of the dismissal of MP Al-Jarrah from the Labor Party, pointing out that the decisions of the Higher Administrative Court are final and not subject to objection.
The Higher Administrative Court upheld on Wednesday the decision of the administrative court ordering the dismissal of MP Mohammad Al-Jarrah from the Labor Party.
Nasrawin stated that the judicial decision is important, as it is the first of its kind and has political and constitutional implications, including the fact that the MP won his parliamentary seat by virtue of his membership in the party, and today he loses the membership condition in the council and consequently his membership in the council is revoked.
Nasrawin, a professor of constitutional law, indicated that there will be a vacancy in the Parliament that will be filled after notifying the Independent Election Commission, which will select the next person on the list (the youth candidate).
He emphasized that the decisions of the Higher Administrative Court are final and absolute, they represent the truth and can neither be objected to nor appealed to any other entity.
The Labor Party sent a letter in 2025 to the Parliament informing it of Al-Jarrah's dismissal from its membership.
The Independent Election Commission previously clarified the legal procedure taken in case a member of Parliament running on a party list is dismissed.
The Commission stated in a previous press release that Article (22/b) of the Political Parties Law No. (7) for the year 2022 stipulates that the administrative court is to handle all appeals related to the final decisions of the party issued for resolving violations and disputes between its members and its executive leadership as per the provisions of its constitution.
The Commission also clarified in its statement that Article (58/4) of the Election Law for the Parliament No. (4) for the year 2022 stipulates the following:
(If the MP who won on a party list resigns from the party he belongs to or is dismissed by a decision that has become definitive, his seat will be filled by the candidate who follows him from the same list he won from, and if that is not possible, the seat will be filled from the next list directly, in accordance with the arrangement stipulated in this law).
Based on the provisions of this article; the parliamentary member on the party list who is dismissed from the party does not lose his seat in the Parliament just by virtue of the dismissal decision issued by the competent party authority; rather, this decision must acquire definitive status either by forfeiting the appeal period of (60) days from the day following the notification of the decision according to Article (8/a) of the Administrative Judiciary Law No. (27) for the year 2014, or by the administrative court's affirmation of the dismissal decision according to the Administrative Judiciary Law.
The Commission at that time stated that once the court's decision supporting the dismissal decision acquires definitive status, the MP's seat is considered vacant, and the court must provide the president of the council of commissioners of the Independent Election Commission with this decision, who in turn will contact the president of the Parliament and name the MP who will succeed the MP whose seat has become vacant in accordance with the provisions of the election law.
