Sources: The Jordan Times and Jordan public holidays. Yesterday, Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit, announced that Jordan had declared Tuesday, July 31, 2007, a one-off national public holiday to enable as many people as possible to participate in the upcoming nationwide municipal elections to be held on that same day.
Parliamentary elections will be held around the end of November 2007, and the Prime Minister hinted that a public holiday might also be declared on that occasion, but he also stressed that he did not want to announce the date of the parliamentary elections now, so that people stay focused on the municipal elections.