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Liberal legalism In politics and law, liberal legalism is a belief that politics should be constrained by legal constitutional boundaries. Liberal legalism has also been called legal constitutionalism, such as is found in United States and Germany, with political co ...

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and

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, national =

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Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. ...

, seats1 = , country = Iran Voice of Nation Coalition ( fa, ائتلاف صدای ملت, also translated the People's Voice or Nation's Voice) was an

electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

for

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...

ian

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and 2016 legislative elections, led by

Ali Motahari Ali Motahhari ( fa, علی مطهری; born 26 January 1958) is an Iranian politician who is known as a conservative and is also named as a sort of conservative reformist, who represented Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district ...

Political stance

The list was originally called "Government Critics Front" ( fa, جبهه منتقدین دولت), as their stance was against Ahmadinejad Government for 2012 election. It was later renamed as Voice of Nation. The group is self-proclaimed principlist, as it states in a statement published February 2012 it is "proud to be affiliated with the principlism, although we are critical of some principlists". It has been described as a "a slate of moderate conservatives" and "a moderate conservative tendency which includes dissident deputies campaigning on a more

reformist Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can ...

platform, stressing the

rights Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical th ...

of the people and freedom of speech within the constitution". According to

Anoushiravan Ehteshami Anoushiravan "Anoush" Ehteshami ( fa, انوشیروان احتشامی) is the Professor and Joint Director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World at Durham University. Ehteshami is the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in ...

, the group is a "parliamentary list of middle-of-the-road conservatives... which tried to form a bridge between the two poles .e. Reformists and Principlists. The group's leader,

believes that there are shortcomings in both principlist and

camps and has called for the removal of the "artificial wall" between the two. Their lists features a combination of

and principlist candidates. The group has been a supporter of Government of Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear talks. Voice of Nation posters consist of stylized pictures of

constitutional A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princip ...

Hassan Modarres Seyyed Hassan Modarres ( fa, سید حسن مدرس c. 1870Sarabeh, 1 December 1937, Kashmar) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Persian Constitutional Revolution, Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was among the ...

Election results

Parliament

Tehran City Council

Notes

References

External links

;Electoral lists
2012 Parliamentary elections

2013 City Council of Tehran election

2016 Parliamentary elections
{{DEFAULTSORT:Voice of Nation Principlist political groups in Iran Political parties established in 2012 Electoral lists for Iranian legislative election, 2012 Electoral lists for Iranian legislative election, 2016 2012 establishments in Iran