Atef Tarawneh

Atef Tarawneh (born 1 January 1954) is a Jordanian politician who has been the Speaker of Jordan's House of Representatives from 3 November 2013 to 10 December 2020.

Tarawneh then returned to Jordan and worked as engineering director of the municipalities of Ma'an, Zarqa and Balqa before having that position in Amman from 1984 to 1994.

Tarawneh revealed that several high-ranking Palestinian leaders and negotiators had received Jordanian citizenship during the same period.

[6] The list, referred to as Watan or Homeland, received 94682 votes in the election and thereby earned two seats, which went to Tarawneh and Khamis Atiyeh.

Tarawneh ran in the November 2013 Speaker elections, which were held at the start of the regular session of the 17th parliament.

On 20 October, out of a total of six candidates, his main competitor was seen as incumbent Speaker Saad Hayel Srour.

He warned that the US Middle East peace plan “confiscates the Palestinian people’s rights and undermines the very foundations on which relevant international legitimacy resolutions were based”.