But they are above all nationalists, not leftists, and will certainly disappoint the south-easterners.
Still, even in Ireland, centre-leftists would be wrong to see the environmentalists as tame fellow-travellers, easy to co-opt because they have nowhere else to go.
But as they spread to Amman, the capital, and to other towns, other disgruntled Jordanians, including Islamists, teachers and leftists, have jumped on the bandwagon.
But leftists in the Congress have blocked discussion of the proposal saying that it is an attempt to privatize the state-owned energy sector.
Bush-hatred eventually spread from a molten core of leftists to set the cultural tone of the country.
Elsewhere, the former proletarian internationalists have rebranded themselves as slightly sleazy centre-leftists.