Collaborative Game

Engagement Game

Engagement game usually involves a large volume of opinions from ruling figures, candidates, and media outlets known as revolutionary currents around the time of each election, to increase participation and encourage people to vote.

However, the 1403 elections seem to be different from previous rounds, as what is heard less now is the discussion of encouraging participation.

In the past three elections, we have encountered the phenomenon of minimum vote, a phenomenon that we have repeatedly listed reasons for. It is the preservation of the favorite minimum vote of the principlists because in these three elections, their voting basket from the most fundamentalists to the traditionalists has been clearly recognized.

Without flattery, the principlists are a pure minority, so they do not have an interest in increasing participation. Providing the minimum legal requirement is sufficient.

Efforts to reduce participation can be seen as a way to influence votes in a certain direction.

By reducing votes to the core of ideological voting and changing the nature of elections to a mechanism of easy voting, one can be assured of the outcome, while the desired pieces are in the list. This task is not necessarily carried out by the government, but by a faction that considers itself equal to the whole and makes the rules a tool for its game.

A review of some media affiliated with institutions, especially their newspapers, shows that the arrangement of conservative candidates has worried reformists about Masoud Pezeshkian and their internal competitions.

The sudden death of Seyed Ebrahim Raisi deprived them of the opportunity to resolve their disputes.

The competition for the parliament and the conflicts between Chenar and Pajush with the early elections of the fourteenth have overlapped. If the late President Rouhani’s votes were to be counted for the second round of the presidency, the discussion would have been different and likely repeated in 1400.

But now the presidential seat is empty, and besides the reformist candidate, there are 5 conservative claimants who have each unequally garnered some of the conservative votes under the current conditions. This division of votes among multiple candidates is a concern occupying their minds.

For this reason, the editor-in-chief of Kayhan wrote in his note that these days many revolutionary and dedicated forces have a common question on their lips that is circulating mouth to mouth and demanding an answer.

The question is which of the Revolutionary Front candidates should we vote for?

The writer’s answer is to vote for the candidate that, after their coalition is determined, they ask each other if they did not form a coalition, what is the answer. In that case, it doesn’t matter much which one you vote for.

Because if they don’t form a coalition, each of them will attract a portion of the people’s votes, and it is obvious that in this case, a group of votes cannot easily compete with the total votes that are coincidentally poured into one basket.

Increasing participation disrupts the game of fundamentalism. Perhaps that’s why the line of increasing participation is not followed with the old enthusiasm and excitement.

It is not clear whether 5 years after the start of the purification process of the game with the people’s vote, in this economic situation and accumulated dissatisfactions, alongside the base of the reformists’ votes, gray votes become active or not. If they become active, the path may change post-elections and the effort to bring the country back on the right track, although difficult, should not be forgotten.

What can you do instead of increasing participation from these media outlets?

The other side knows that if they lose, changes will happen anyway because the current pure team will step aside, and the situation and policies favored by the perpetrators may change. Therefore, high participation can ruin a multi-year plan.

An interesting point about this situation is that in these elections, those who were attacked daily or perhaps every day by some media outlets are now making more effort to increase participation.

Another interesting point is the effort to eliminate the little hope for change that has emerged. This effort is happening in both formal and informal spaces. It is not surprising if anti-Iranian political or semi-political forces pursue this line.

It is astonishing to see the forces claiming revolution lined up against anti-revolutionary forces in one line.