Jordanian Progressive Party

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JORDANIAN PROGRESSIVE PARTY

Palestinian-Jordanian socialist political party (al-Hizb al-Taqaddumi al-Urduni), founded in 1990 following a split in the Jordanian People's Democratic Party, or HASHD. Its leading figures were Ali Amr, Salah Raafat, and Yussef Hurani. The secretary general in 2004 is Fawaz al-Zubi.

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