“What the ministers said in their resignation letters provided additional evidence from inside the governing institution about the absence of the national will for reform, the domination of the corrupt forces and the government’s loss of its constitutional role as well as the ability to comprehend the big transformations in the region,” the IAF said in a statement.

The IAF, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, was commenting on Tuesday’s resignation of the Minister of State for Media Affairs Taher Adwan.

In his resignation letter, Adwan cited a plan by the government of Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit to introduce to the Parliament on Thursday draft laws for printing and fighting corruption which he said ran counter to the political reform demanded by the public and threatened to impose “restrictions” on the press and public freedoms.

Minister of Justice Hussein Megalli, who resigned earlier this month, said: “The reform path has reached a deadlock and it is impossible to advance over this path.”

“Jordan is part of the Arab nation and share with it the twin plights of corruption and despotism, which are sufficient for undermining the Jordanian state and jeopardizing its political, economic and social security,” the IAF statement said.

The IAF said that the ”stick-and-carrot approach” pursued by Bakhit would be futile and that the solution lay in asking a national personality that enjoys the confidence of the Jordanian people to form a national salvation government.

King Abdallah asked Bakhit in February to form a new cabinet and assigned to him the duty of carrying out “real and speedy reforms” that lead to the formation of governments with majorities at the lower house of Parliament.

Bakhit replaced Samir Rifai whom the monarch sacked in response to a series of demonstrations across Jordan that found aspiration from the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

A National Dialogue Committee formed later has proposed a new election law and a political parties law as the cornerstone for the sought political reform.

But the Islamic-led opposition hurried to reject the proposed election law, saying it failed to ensure the principle of proportional representation.

Bakhit has been under pressure to resign from Friday demonstrations that swept Jordan over the past four weeks.

Opposition parties said they planned to stage a big demonstration on Friday to protest the delay in adopting the political reforms as promised by the king.