شرعية السلطة بين الانتخاب و الرضاء الشعبي

Abstract EN

People's lives have become difficult in most Arab countries because of struggle for power, foreign interventions, corruption, electoral fraud, olute seizure of Authority, terrorism, wars, disasters and crises, and internal protests that disrupt security and public order - and the pain in our hearts - that we lack the stability of relationship between the people and the authority.

Since the election is a democratic procedure to gain power in free and fair elections, so it can be said that it is the first step towards democracy, because democracy is not only about access to Authority through the ballot box Rather, most important of all in the democratic practice after taking Authority, that is, the democracy of continuity in Authority, “the legitimacy of achievement, ” which can be called popular consent by those who are governed by Authority.

Elections are not the only element of the legitimacy of the authority only, but legitimacy of the authority stems from popular consent.

in accordance with the provisions of Constitution and the law.

As for the other side, it is "objectively a strengthening of constitutional legitimacy represented by the people's conviction and approval of authority, and these two aspects are inseparable from each other.