Jordan PM wins trust vote

May 25, 2012 04:08

Jordan's MPs have given their vote of confidence to Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh, who faces a tough challenge to offset a huge deficit and hold elections to meet reform demands.

The vote was 75-31, with four abstentions and 10 MPs absent from the 120-seat lower house of parliament.

Tarawneh, who was appointed in April to push through a package of reforms and laws needed to hold general polls this year, has acknowledged that the country's economy was "much worse than I expected."

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