Al-Anbat-
Noor Al-saleh
Director
Muhammad Youssef Al-Abadi won the position of the Jordanian Artists Syndicate,
beating his direct competitor Hussein Al-Khatib, in the run-off for the
position of the Artists Syndicate, after he won 141 votes, compared to 85 votes
for Al-Khatib, according to the announcement by the head of the polling
committee, artist Nabil Najm.
The General
Authority of the Artists Syndicate elected the twelfth board of directors of
the Syndicate, whose term will last for the next two years, in the elections
that took place at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman, and the Minister of
Culture, Haifa Al-Najjar, attended in part.
Al-Abadi’s
victory came after the re-election of the captain’s seat, between him and
Al-Khatib, for obtaining the highest votes without achieving the majority of
the half plus 1. In the first round, Al-Abadi obtained 97 votes, and Al-Khatib
received 84 votes, while the third contender, artist Sari Al-Assaad, received
73 votes, from the original votes of the 257 artists who voted out of the 321
eligible artists.
Ten artists
out of 37 competed for ten seats, two seats for each profession, won the
membership of the council. The artists Zuhair Al-Nubani won 116 votes, Akef
Najm won 74 votes, while the two artists Firas Al-Masry won for directing 101
votes, and Hussein Tabishat got 60 votes.
As for the
profession of playing and singing, the artists Jihad Sarkis won and received 80
votes, and Malik Barmawi got 71 votes, while the artists Murad Demirjian won
for the profession of composition and music composition and received 125 votes,
and Dargham Bushnaq received 118 votes.
Artists
Hazza Al-Barmawi won (135 votes), and Muhammad Al-Marashdah won 107 votes, for
technical professions.
At the
beginning of the union’s extraordinary meeting, the members of the general body
had discussed, at the beginning of the union’s extraordinary meeting with the
outgoing union council, the administrative and financial reports, and they were
approved in the presence of a committee Official from the Ministry of Culture.
