IMAGES: Residents close shops in Ma’an, Tafilah following transport sector crisis – Roya News English

IMAGES: Residents close shops in Ma’an, Tafilah following transport sector crisis – Roya News English

Dozens of residents in Ma’an and Tafilah, south of Jordan, closed their shops Wednesday following the transportation sector crisis due to the high fuel prices in Jordan. They entered an open-ended peaceful strike.

On Tuesday, the head of the Energy Committee Obaid Yassin said that the representatives' most prominent demands were to reduce the prices of oil derivatives.

He added, in a press conference to announce the outcomes of a governmental parliamentary meeting to discuss the transport sector crisis in Jordan, that the deputies also demanded an extension on the Defense Order related to the debtor’s imprisonment.