Thirty Percent Legitimacy - 2004-02-24

Thirty Percent Legitimacy - 2004-02-24. Despite the fact that everyone knew the ruling body of Iran would manipulate the votes of the seventh parliamentary elections, the boycott of the elections by reformists opened the electoral space for those who think of the responsibilities of a parliament member merely as a job after four years of representation and work in one of the government ministries with group eighteen?!! Those who have until now supported the totalitarian faction have plundered our motherland to European profiteers! (Refer to the article 'Motherland'). In small towns where the winds of reform could be heard from several thousand feet over the past seven years, as in previous periods, it was conducted under a veil of ambiguities (hidden hands). According to statements from one of the members of the Guardian Council's supervision during the sixth period in the districts of Qasr-e Shirin, Sarpol-e Zahab, and Gilan-e Gharb, with prior coordination with the governors of the mentioned cities, Mr. Shirzadi, who had almost half the votes of his rival (who was Sunni!), was sent to the sixth parliament?!! In this period, the issue in small counties was somewhat different, such that political competitions had given way to ethnic and tribal stubbornness, which was not unexpected since the intelligence apparatus of the ruling body is a master of such activities. Now the question arises: Can a system be legitimized with thirty percent of the real votes of urban and rural people (most of whom cast blank votes!)?!! Is this not a sign of the calm before the storm?!! Mohsen Younesi, industrial management expert, Winter 82.