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.
Machine summary:
The hypothesis of this research indicates that there is a difference in terms of subject 3 between the form of the constitutive vote of confidence in the Islamic Republic of Iran and other political systems, to explain that in none of the parliamentary and semi-presidential systems is the vote of confidence taken individually for each minister.
“Vote of Approval” was a parliamentary tradition in the constitutional political system in which the Assembly would give a vote of approval to the individual considered for the position of Prime Minister, and then the King, after reviewing his qualifications, would issue a decree, and the Prime Minister nominee would determine his cabinet members and this time go to Parliament to obtain a “vote of confidence.
For example, according to the text of the Parliament’s legal decision, at the time of forming Amir Abbas Hoveida’s government, “The National Consultative Assembly, as a result of hearing the statements of Mr. Amir Abbas Hoveida (Prime Minister) regarding the introduction of ministers (according to the attached list) and the commitment to implement the previous government’s program, after discussion and negotiation around it and with regard to the aforementioned program, expressed confidence with a majority of 156 votes to his government”1, therefore, it can be said that the form of the vote of confidence, in terms of subject matter, focused on the government’s program and cabinet.
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