Ambassador Javier Sangro, who requested the meeting with members of the Executive Bureau, the party’s top decisionmaking body on Wednesday, “expressed the desire in familiarizing himself with the IAF’s vision of reforms as well as its attitude toward the Palestinian question,” the statement said.
During the rare meeting between a Western ambassador and IAF officials, the Spanish envoy “stressed Spain’s balanced attitude regarding issues of the region as well as Madrid’s effective role, through the European Union and in cooperation with the US administration, to accomplish peace in the region,” it added.
The IAF and its mother group, the Muslim Brotherhood movement, boycotted the latest polls, citing the government’s failure to provide enough assurances that the polls “will not be rigged.”
The IAF also demanded a new election law that provides for proportional representation.
During the meeting with the Spanish envoy, IAF’s Secretary-General Hamzeh Mansour explained his party’s “peaceful struggle for political reforms, foremost of which is the enactment of an election law that truly represents the Jordanian people.”
He also urged the European Union to reconsider its policies on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mansour warned against Israel’s “racist and expansionist machinations which jeopardize the security of the region,” according to the statement.