Concerning political parties and the refusal of citizens to join those organizations, this can be attributed to the general political depression and government harassment of their members. In addition, in Jordan we have something specific, no one talks about this issue but I will. We have the Jordanian politics of the street and the Palestinian political street. Palestinians living in Jordan are only concerned with the central cause of the Palestinian people. While, concerning Jordanians, most of them work in the army or the judicial system who have no right to join political parties, therefore, there membership of political parties remains very limited.
Many observers believe the opposition disappeared from the Jordanian political map.
We can say there is a vacuum after the boycotting of the leftists, nationalists and the Islamists of the 1997 general elections. The opposition still exists in the country but its representatives in the Lower House have decreased compared with the previous mandates.