Jurisprudential and Legal Dimensions of "Abstention" in the Islamic Council of Iran

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1 PhD in Public Law, School of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

2 Doctoral student of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Abstention is one of the types of votes used in the Islamic Council. This vote, in many cases, has a meaning next to a positive or favorable vote and a negative or opposed vote, and in that case, the person refrains from giving a declarative and expressive vote (positive or negative). Analyzing the acts of governance based on Islamic standards and the necessity of not contradicting these acts with Islamic standards highlights the necessity of this jurisprudential and legal review; in addition to authenticity, the efficient principles and approaches in comparative law can also be used for the legal status of "abstention". Based on this, the main problem of this descriptive-analytical and library paper is that, considering the range of tasks arising from representation, along with the degree of freedom of action and moral life for the representative, as well as the necessities governing decision-making in different situations, what an abstention in the two areas of "assignment ruling" and "status ruling: interpretation of the status of the abstained vote" is? Among the results of Anake's paper, in jurisprudence and comparative law, different approaches have been adopted in facing this issue; but in jurisprudence, the majority of statements and bases are guided by the prohibition and impermissibility of abstention in the initial situation; at the same time, on a case-by-case and exceptional basis, in some cases, it is possible to prescribe abstention. Among other principles governing the abstention vote is the principle of transparency and the principle of relative legal value, which will open a middle way for "application" and "interpretation of the abstention vote" based on the evidence or the previous certain situation.

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  • Receive Date: 23 May 2023
  • Revise Date: 28 August 2023
  • Accept Date: 01 January 2024

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