Legal analysis of presidential candidates' eligibility emphasizing clarification conditions of the "religious and political figures (Rijal)"

Although the eligibility of presidential candidates is specified in Article 115 of the Constitution, not mentioning cases, the ambiguity of some conditions of candidates, the requirement to implement general election policies, and the requirement to utmost minding in defining the conditions of the presidential candidates, especially the Guardian Council's conditions about being a religious and political figure, created a situation for the presidential candidates to attract the attention of the public and politicians at a particular time. In the Guardian Council resolution, some conditions of the presidential candidates are more objective, so that identifying potential candidates has become more tangible. However, the legal explanation of the eligibility of the presidential candidates, in addition to making the cases clearer, theorizes the criteria for recognizing the presidential candidates from others in a way being far from the previous ambiguities and being diagnosed by the general public. Being a perceived religious and political figure candidate requires a prerequisite for achieving the desired conditions to approve Guardian Council's oversight. Clarifying the conditions of religious and political status, in addition to specifying the procedures and methods of the Guardian Council's examination of the qualifications of candidates, makes the criteria of qualified candidates more transparent for the general public. However, since the aforementioned resolution describes the conditions of presidential candidates in more detail, it supports making the election process more transparent. In this study, in the beginning, the conditions of the presidential candidates are briefly mentioned, then the condition of being a political and religious figure was examined and in conclusion, the resolution of the Guardian Council was reviewed.