Kamangir (Archer)

“People Will Face Parliament”

Kamangir | November 23, 2005 | Category Iran

“If parliament do not approve him (the last proposed candidate for petroleum ministry) then people will face them”. As the rumors say, that’s President’s private quote before parliament members voted for the new proposed minister-to-be, who was then rejected (see).

اگر مجلس به اين گزينه وزارت نفت هم رأي ندهد، مردم تكليف مجلس را مشخص خواهند كرد

Now, we may face the “people facing parliament” actually happening. There are some questions here:
1- Who are these people? Those who elected Ahmadinejad lately? How much is he sure that they all back him now?
2- Wasn’t this parliament basically elected by those people too?
3- Is “people facing parliament” a newly recognized act in the constitution? How is it practiced?
4- So, parliament members are not essentially free to vote for rejecting a minister-to-be?
5- Isn’t that parliament the same one in which some people were talking about voting Ahmadinejad out of his office? Isn’t there a loop of power here?
6- Where the hell is Iranian political system going?

p.s. I can’t translate this. That’s a key conservative figure’s sentence to convince MPs to vote positive (see)

كامران با استفاده از 5 دقيقه وقت باقيمانده‌ي رحماني به عنوان دومين موافق وزير پيشنهادي نفت صبحت كرد و گفت: حيثيت مهم است، گور باباي وكالت و وزارت اين چيزها؛ كه حدادل گفت: ادبيات كامران مردمي و طبيعي است و شما با آن آشنا هستيد.

And, these guys can’t even govern their own meetings. Parliament speaker, which is actually its head in Iran, mentions “there seem to be 225 people here while 261 voting cards are distributed”! (see)

حدادعادل تعداد كارت‌هاي توزيع‌شده را 261 كارت اعلام كرد و در خصوص عدم مطابقت آراء با عدد تابلو (255) گفت: ممكن است بعضي نمايندگان حضور داشته باشند و كارت‌شان را نياورده باشند و دم در هم كنترل مي‌شود كه كسي خارج نشود.

p.s.2 The rumor was rejected by Presidency’s public-relations(see) and the original news is deleted from Baztab’s frontpage.