Supervision of elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Raqebi, Zahra; Rahimi, Rohollah; Zarabi, Hamid

Supervision of elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

zahra raqebi ¹

rohollah Rahimi ²

hamid zarabi ³

¹ PhD student in Public Law, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.

² Department of Law, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran (corresponding author)

³ Department of Public Law, Faculty of Humanities, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Today, the issue of monitoring elections is fully accepted in the world, monitoring elections based on Article 99 of the Constitution is one of the duties of the Guardian Council, the approval and disqualification of election candidates, the cancellation of some election funds by the Guardian Council during the elections. It is that the issue of monitoring elections and the type of this monitoring is one of the important issues in the social-political arena, political and legal circles.

The election monitoring process should also be explained clearly and unambiguously in a legal framework, so as to hope for a democratic election.

On the other hand, there will always be damages due to the norms within the society as well as the structure of the election laws, which means that the election institution may be the only operator of the election due to its structure and legal framework, or it may not perform the task of implementation and monitoring. Therefore, it is necessary for supervisory institutions to redouble their efforts to hold useful elections.

Considering the right of interpretation given to the Guardian Council by the Constitution, this council has considered its supervision of the elections in all stages (before, during and after the elections) as discretionary and due to the ambiguity in explaining key concepts such as discretionary supervision, the criteria The evaluation and principles governing the evaluation of candidates' qualifications, the supervision of the Guardian Council have continued to be the subject of discussion.

Keywords

Supervision

elections

Iran

Guardian Council

discretionary supervision

Subjects

Theoretical foundations of the Islamic Revolution

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