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Jordan: Growing Anti-Austerity Protests Reject IMF-Backed Tax Increase

HeadlineJun 04, 2018

In Jordan, thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital Amman for a fourth straight night Sunday amid a growing anti-austerity movement sparked by an income tax increase backed by the International Monetary Fund. The protests are the biggest in years in Jordan. Al Jazeera reports Jordan’s King Abdullah II is expected to ask for Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki’s resignation today. This is Yasmin Mihyar, one of the protesters.

Yasmin Mihyar: “To be honest, the citizens cannot handle the economic burdens. Who was bearing it previously? We are not the people who should pay the taxes of the IMF and the debts the country is putting onto the shoulders of the people. As you can see, people are protesting and are opposing these decisions.”

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