People’s Participation And The Strength Of The Nation

Daniel Mabsout,

President Obama called Lebanese president -two days ago-telling him that US would like to see the parliamentary elections taking place in time and a government formed soon . But this does not seem to be realizable in Lebanon ,and while US is looking so keen on democracy to have elections happen in due time , what it is doing in fact is hindering the democratic process by forcing on Lebanon a voting system that is not representative of the people and not adequate to the country . A voting system that will give- unjustly- the allies of US the majority, but where people will not be fairly represented… US of course doesn’t care . A fair voting system will cause the resistance to win the majority and this US cannot afford, better keep the old voting system that had actually expired and that has caused among others – the Lebanese civil war .But what suits US should pass at the expense of what suits Lebanese. US is really afraid of fair elections and of real participation of people in the elections.

As for the coming Iranian presidential elections, the authorities have excluded from the competition the two controversial candidates : Rafsanjani supported by the reformists and by what remains from the Green so called Revolution, and Masha’i the candidate of the actual president Amadinejad., the reason is that the authorities think that there is need not to act on the will of the Iranians by offering them the same scenario as in the previous elections, and repeat the same pattern and the same polarizations among the two opposites that are reformist Rafsanjani and the candidate promoted by Ahmadinejad . In order to give more freedom to the Iranians and avoid ready made patterns and promote the freedom of choice, there is need to reshuffle the cards and start a fresh so that the voting remains a real expression of what the Iranians really want.

What the Iranians are going to get is an exceptional extraordinary democratic elections in the proper sense of the word where the people primarily and above all vote for a strong and sound Iran.


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