<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hundreds of Jordanians took to the streets of the capital Amman yesterday in a fourth day of nightly protests against IMF-backed price increases. Urging King Abdullah II to intervene, about 3,000 demonstrators who converged near the cabinet office chanted slogans calling for the sacking of Prime Minister Hani Mulki. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Demonstrators said they would only disband if the government rescinded a tax bill it sent to parliament last month, which critics say worsens living standards. Protests have gripped the country since last Wednesday when hundreds responding to a call by trade unions, flooded the streets of Amman and other cities to demand the fall of the government.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Last month, the government proposed an income tax draft law, aimed at raising taxes on employees by at least five percent and on companies by between 20 and 40 percent. The measures are the latest in a series of economic reforms since Amman secured a 723- million US dollar three-year credit line from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2016.</div>