2024-06-09 17:12:34
(ANSA) – TEHRAN, JUNE 09 – There are six candidates – 5 conservatives and ultra-conservatives and just one reformist – approved by the Guardian Council to run for the presidential elections on 28 June in Iran to take the place of Ebrahim Raisi, who died final 19 Might in a helicopter crash. This was introduced by Tehran’s Ministry of the Inside. They’re Stated Jalili, Mohammed Baqher Qalibaf, Masoud Pezeshkian, Mustafa Purmohamadi, Alireza Zakani and AmirHussein Qazizadeh Hashemi. Excluded as soon as once more had been former president Mahmud Ahmadinejad and former speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani. The six candidates had been chosen by the Council of Guardians of the Structure, an unelected and conservative-dominated physique liable for overseeing the elections, from among the many 80 personalities who submitted their candidacies. The one candidate from the reform camp is Massud Pezeshkian, deputy of the town of Tabriz and former Minister of Well being. The others are Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf, conservative speaker of Parliament; Alireza Zakani, mayor of Tehran; Stated Jalili, former ultra-conservative negotiator on the nuclear file; Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, ultra-conservative head of the Martyrs’ Basis, and Mostafa Purmohammadi, former Inside Minister. Amongst these discarded there’s as soon as once more the previous conservative president Mahmud Ahmadinejad, already excluded from the 2017 and 2021 presidential elections, in addition to the previous president of Parliament Ali Larijani, thought-about a average. The Council of Guardians of the Structure isn’t required by regulation to justify its decisions. Within the 2021 elections Ebrahim Raisi prevailed and was elected within the first spherical additionally as a result of exclusion of all reformist and average candidates from a listing of 592 aspirants, diminished by the Council to a shortlist of seven closing candidates. On that event, solely 49% of Iranians voted: the bottom turnout fee for the reason that Islamic revolution of 1979. (ANSA).
2024-06-09 17:12:34