Jihad al-Momani, a board member of the Independent Election Commission, said that the youth involvement in the party work is protected by legislative and royal guarantees as well as the guarantee of need as Article 4 of the Political Parties Law stipulates that students in higher education institutions should not be attacked because of their party or political affiliation and activity and that the Jordanian citizen -in cases of infringement of constitutional or legal rights- has the right to resort to competent courts to file any objection or claim compensation for material and moral damage.
During the dialogue workshop organized by Yarmouk University entitled "the Role of Political Parties in Youth Development", which is held as part of a series of dialogue workshops covering the discussion papers of His Majesty the King, Al-Momani indicated that the royal guarantee is from His Majesty King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein, who emphasized in various local forums the need to encourage the youth to be part of the political system and to engage in the partisan work. He added that the law of the Jordanian Parties simulates the time stage desired by His Majesty the King, which is the stage of shifting from loyalties to sub-identity and then to a community of parties that will be able to form governments. He also called on the university students, as the center of the reform process, to be careful in choosing the national parties.
The Vice President of Yarmouk University for Administrative Affairs, Professor Riad Almomani, said that empowering the youth is not only concerned with the political work, but with science, economics, society and culture, stressing that engaging in the partisan work is an important experience for students as well as the society in general. He then explained that the university will work to take all legislative and logistical measures and formulate instructions to manage the partisan work inside the university campus. Besides, the dean of the deanship of Student Affairs, Dr. Muhammad Thiabat, emphasized that Yarmouk, through the various activities of Youth Summer 2022, aims at consolidating freedoms among university students, refining their personalities, empowering them as leaders, and encouraging them to engage in the partisan work.
