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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The percentage of Jordanians who believe that Jordan is on the right track declined by 9 percent, according to results of a poll on Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour’s second Cabinet after two years in office.

The results showed that 65 percent of the national sample agreed that the country is on the right track, compared to 74 percent last February and 51 percent in December 2014.

According to the poll, 32 percent said that the country is on the wrong track.

The results of the poll, which was conducted by the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan, were announced in a press conference that was held by Head of the Polling Unit at the CSS, Walid Al Khatib, on Monday.

Around 60 percent of Jordanians who believed that things were not on the right track attributed this to the rise in prices, high cost of living and bad economic situation while 13 percent attributed it to corruption and nepotism.

Around 67 percent of opinion leaders believe that the country is on the right track, compared to 61 percent in the December 2014 poll, while 30 percent said things were going in the wrong direction.

The results showed that 43 percent believe that the country was on the wrong track due to the bad economic situation, 23 percent attributed it to weak political and economic programs while 14 percent said it was due to slow political and economic reforms.

Regarding the main challenges facing the Kingdom, the poll showed that these were cited as poverty, unemployment, rise in prices and high cost of living, followed by corruption and nepotism, and then security and stability.

*Petra