Transparency of MPs' votes: requirements and necessities

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor of Payame Noor University

Abstract

Transparency of MPs' votes" is one of the categories that oversees parliamentary transparency, which has become mandatory in parliaments in recent decades in parallel with technological advances in some democracies. The fact that it is considered a fundamental step towards the characteristics of good governance. In the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, "the plan for the transparency of the votes of the deputies was presented in the open court of the Assembly on October 28, 2017 and its urgency was approved, but after two years, no decision has been made yet. This description of the present article raises the question of what are the advantages of the transparency of the votes of the representatives over the non-transparency of the votes. ? In this regard, an attempt was made to deal with the transparency of votes with categories such as democratic necessities, civil institution building, the religious rule of Ashar, and the culture of transparency and accountability. According to the findings of this article, any political system that can exercise transparency in its affairs, especially in the system of voting of representatives, is equally far from political and economic corruption.

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