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Ammon News - His Majesty King Abdullah II will open the second ordinary session of the 19th Jordanian Parliament with the speech from the throne.

The two chambers of parliament shall separately send their responses within 14 days from the King's address.

After the speech from the throne, the 29th Senate will hold its first session chaired by president Faisal Fayez to elect his two deputies and their assistants as well as members of the committee which will draft the response to the King's speech. The agenda also includes reciting the royal decrees proroguing parliament's extraordinary session as of last September 29 and summoning it to convene on Sunday.

The Lower House will also hold its inaugural session, chaired by the longest serving lawmaker, aided by the two youngest members present, under Article 3 of the House’s bylaw, to elect a new Speaker of the chamber.

The winner of the speakership is the deputy who musters a majority vote (half of the members attending + one), in case more than two candidates stand for the post. If only two candidates contested the post, the winner will be the one who wins a majority of the House members.

After the new Speaker is called to take the chair, the lawmakers embark on electing the first and second deputy speakers and his assistants, according to the bylaw.

After electing members of the permanent office (the president, his two deputies and assistants), the House chooses the committee to draft its response to the speech from the throne, which will be passed to the King after approval by the full House. At the start of each ordinary session, lawmakers will elect members of the 15 permanent parliamentary committees.

In its six-month term, the ordinary session will tackle the 2023 state budget's draft law that will be passed at least one month from the start of the fiscal year, under Article 112 of the constitution, plus bills coming from the government as well as 50 other bills and Audit Bureau reports for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Since its election two years ago, the current parliament has passed 56 laws, debated 150 queries and sent 244 parliamentary memoranda to the government.