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He stopped the voting when he had enough friendly members, contra the constitution.
by ch4s3 10mo ago
He stopped the voting when he had enough friendly members, contra the constitution.
- cess11 10mo agoI'm not sure what the constitution said, please cite an authoritative translation. He stopped the counting at 79 members, just enough for parliamentary quorum, out of which 30 belonged to his party.
- ch4s3 10mo agoI don’t have the book I’m looking for handy but the consensus opinion of historians of Iran is that it was an illegitimate move, as explained by Ervand Abrahamian in “ Evolving Iran: An Introduction to Politics and Problems in the Islamic Republic”. Tellingly his first act after seating a half empty Majlis was to have them grant him emergency powers that allowed him to dictate laws. This is not a democratic system.