Jordanians march against inflation and poverty

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Jordanians march against inflation
Thousands vent anger in Amman and other cities against government's inability to rein in prices and poverty.
January 14, 2011

Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets of the capital Amman and other cities to protest against rising commodity prices, unemployment and poverty.

The protesters are calling on the government headed by Samir Rifai, the prime minister, to step down.

Demonstrators, including trade unionists and leftist party members, carried national flags and chanted anti-government slogans in downtown Amman.

They called Rifai a "coward" and demanded his resignation.

"Prices, particularly gasoline and food, are getting out of hand,'' Buthaina Iftial, a 24-year-old civil servant, said.

"We are protesting the policies of the goernment, high prices and repeated taxation that made the Jordanian people revolt," Tawfiq al-Batoush, a former head of Karak municipality, told the Reuters news agency at a protest outside Karak's Al Omari mosque.

The Muslim Brotherhood, its political arm the Islamic Action Front (IAF), and the country's 14 trade unions say they will hold a sit-in outside parliament on Sunday to "denounce government economic policies".



Protesters said a $169m plan to create jobs and reduce the prices of commodities and was not enough

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