Tehran, YJC. Iran’s Rouhani says an article of the Iranian Constitution which proposes public referendum in the process of setting up regulations on certain key issues has so far gone unheeded.
Speaking to an economic conference on Sunday, the President
Hassan Rouhani stated that one very important article of the Iranian
Constitution has been neglected in the past years.
He asserted that as the country's chief executive, he is interested
in putting into practice a part of the Constitution which proposes reliance on
the public vote in top-priority economical, social, political and cultural
issues instead of referring regulations to the parliament when working them out.
At the same time that the parliament preserves its supreme
position as the legislative body, he further said, people should be asked to
directly vote on issues which are of high significance for the country and have
notable influences on their lives.
He added "This part of the constitution has to be put into
action for once after 36 years since the Islamic revolution.”
The Iranian president called for further concentration on the
economic sphere and stressed the need for eradicating the economic corruption
which he said is conspicuous everywhere.
The Rouhani administration has been grappling with
stagflation which president claims are the result of previous bad policies.