{"id":2188,"date":"2021-05-08T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T12:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2021-05-08T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T12:18:46","slug":"mass-disqualification-of-candidates-decreases-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/2021\/05\/2188\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Disqualification of Candidates Decreases Voter Turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Criticizing the mass disqualification of candidates for the local council elections all over the country, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader warned of negative consequences of such disqualifications.<br><br>Addressing tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims in Zahedan&#8217;s Friday gathering on May 7, 2021, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid said: &#8220;Unfortunately, the local council candidates were widely rejected in the country&#8221;.<br><br> &#8220;In the election of the 11th term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, a great number of candidates were purged&#8221;, said the Friday prayer leader of Sunnis in Zahedan. <br><br>&#8220;In the past, there was a sort of tolerance in approving the candidates for local council elections&#8221;, he added. <br><br> President of Darululoom Zahedan further stressed: &#8220;Mass disqualification of candidates is not in the interest of the country at all; it causes concerns among the people and lead to lesser turnout in the election.&#8221; <br><br>The Friday Imam of Zahedan pointed out: &#8220;It&#8217;s necessary to reconsider the approval of the candidates and change the policies&#8221;.<br><br> &#8220;A ruler can be a mercy to the nation when he takes care of all groups, when he is not limited to one particular faction&#8221;, said the prominent Sunni scholar of Iran.<br><br> &#8220;A ruler should have a broad vision and follow God; it is the method of Allah that He sees all the servants \u2013 regardless to their faith and thoughts- and puts everyone under the shadow of His mercy&#8221;, the eminent Sunni scholar of Sistan-Baluchistan said.<br> &#8216;Deviation from the divine path causes damages&#8217;, he urged.<br><br><strong>Economic problems are the result of ignorance to advice of well-wishers <br><\/strong> Referring to the devaluation of the country&#8217;s currency, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said: &#8220;Unfortunately, the value of the country&#8217;s currency has been falling; this decline is the result of the wrong domestic and foreign policies.&#8221;<br><br> He added: &#8220;Unfortunately, in reviewing the domestic and foreign policies of the country, advice of the well-wishers of the country were not taken into consideration.&#8221;  <br><br>&#8220;Therefore, the economic problems that have become a crisis in the country are one of the results of this negligence&#8221;, Imam of the Grand Makki Mosque of Zahedan said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticizing the mass disqualification of candidates for the local council elections all over the country, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader warned of negative consequences of such disqualifications. Addressing tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims in Zahedan&#8217;s Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}