Change Quote by Abdallah II

Abdallah II’s line works because it refuses the fairy tale version of politics: the single law, the single election, the single “historic” announcement that magically fixes a system. By calling reform “not an event” but a “sustainable process,” he’s quietly downgrading the public’s appetite for dramatic turning points and upgrading the less cinematic virtues of patience, institutions, and follow-through. It’s the language of steady governance, but it’s also the language of insulation.

The key phrase is “in our view.” It signals authority while preemptively framing dissent as a difference in perspective rather than a clash over power. Reform becomes a managed concept: something guided, paced, and evaluated by the state, not seized or demanded by society. “Build on its own successes” is strategically circular; it implies momentum and inevitability, but it also sets a condition. Change is easiest to justify when it can be shown to have worked already. That can mean pragmatism, or it can mean gatekeeping: no proof, no next step.

“Virtuous cycle” adds a moral halo. It casts reform as self-reinforcing goodness rather than conflict, sacrifice, or redistribution. That matters in the context of a monarchy navigating regional volatility and domestic pressures: the rhetoric promises movement without promising rupture. It’s a reassurance to international partners who want stability and modernization, and a gentle warning to reformers that transformation will be incremental, not insurgent. The sentence is engineered to make gradualism sound like progress, and to make control sound like stewardship.