The Pathology of Iranian Legislation System from the Perspective of the Legislative Initiative Procedure

Although the legislative process is main responsibility of the Legislature but this process requires the cooperation of other Powers especially, the Executive Branch. Parliamentary approvals should be based on the bills submitted by the Executive in accordance with good legislative standards. The article attempts to compare the number of bills and motions (also their changes) in some countries with Iranian legislative process (during nine rounds of legislatures). Results reveal that unlike many parliaments of the world, Iranian legislative process has moved to legislative motion-based process particularly, in the recent years (during the 7th -9th rounds of legislatures). Then, this process led to weaken good legislation. Findings of the present research indicate often three reasons for the establishment of motion-base legislative process in Iranian parliamentary system including : the weakness of the party system, the lack of self-limitation instruments in the Rules of Procedure of Iranian Parliament on the legislative initiative by MPs, and poor communication channels between the Executive Branch and military, civil-commercial institutions.