Document Type : Article
Author
Ph.D. of Public Law, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
Investiture votes in parliamentary and semi-presidential systems occur at the beginning of government formation, either ex ante or ex post, and take three forms: an investiture vote in the entire cabinet, the government program, or the prime minister. In the constitutional law of the Constitutional Revolution, this vote pertained to the government program along with the composition of the cabinet. In the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, ratified in 1979, despite the explicit text regarding the vote of confidence for the cabinet, subsequent governments, except for the first cabinet, came to power based on individual votes of confidence for ministers. After the constitutional revision in 1989, the practice of individual votes of confidence for ministers continued, effectively sidelining collective votes of confidence. It seems that two elements of the concept of fundamental obsolescence—“lack of continuous and conscious use” and “loss of credibility among political actors”—have been realized concerning the first part of Article 87 of the Constitution. The question this research seeks to address is the comparison of the vote of confidence in the constitutional law of the Islamic Republic of Iran with other political systems, aiming to uncover the differences between the form of the vote of confidence in the constitutional law of the Islamic Republic of Iran and this legal institution in other political systems.
Keywords
- investiture vote
- individual investiture vote
- collective investiture vote
- investiture vote to council of ministers
- constitutional desuetude
- principle 87 of the Constitution
Main Subjects
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