4 candidates – three conservatives and one reformist – are vying for the vote of Iranians within the presidential elections held right now, Friday (6/28).
These 4 candidates (who have been initially six however two withdrew on the eve of the election, probably to bolster the opposite three conservatives) have been accredited by the Council of the Revolutionary Guards among the many complete of 80 who expressed a want to take part within the elections.
Extra fashionable than conservative candidates is the 62-year-old present president of the Parliament, basic Mohammed Baker Ghalibafformer mayor of Tehran and former commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The opposite two conservatives are 58-year-old Saeed Jalili, Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator, and 64-year-old Mustafa Pourmohammadi, a cleric and former director of counterintelligence.
THE distinctive reformer candidate is the 69-year-old Massoud Pezeskiana coronary heart surgeon from the nation’s Azeri minority, who is asking for a resumption of dialogue with the West over Iran’s nuclear program.
The abstinence, the outcomes
Many analysts see Pezheskian as having probably the most momentum, however his election will depend on whether or not reformist voters go to the polls in droves or select to remain residence.
Turnout in final March’s parliamentary elections was simply 41%, and the apathy of the 61 million registered voters is seen as a function of right now’s presidential election as effectively. The inclusion of a reformist candidate is interpreted as a “trick” by the regime to extend voter turnout and thereby lend higher legitimacy to the election.
Ghalibaf may be very near the supreme non secular chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In Iran, the president runs the nation however the true energy is held by the supreme chief who controls nuclear and overseas coverage.
The newest polls put Pezheskian first with 24.4%, adopted by Ghalibaf with 23.4% and Jalili with 21.5%. About one in 5 voters declared themselves undecided till the final second.
All votes can be counted by hand for this closing outcomes are usually not anticipated till Saturday evening or, extra probably, Sunday. If no candidate receives 50% plus one vote, the highest two will advance to a runoff held every week afterward Friday 7/5.
The election marketing campaign
The economic system, sanctions imposed on Iran by the West, primarily the US, and girls’s rights are the problems that dominated the election marketing campaign. A testomony to how a lot the Ladies, Life, Freedom motion has affected the nation – created after the dying of Mahsha Amini by the hands of the morality police in 2022 for not sporting her headband correctly – is that every one the presidential candidates, even and the conservatives, distanced themselves from the cruel methods of imposing the headband.
Indicative is the assertion of Pourmohammadi, the one cleric among the many candidates for the presidency: “Past elections and politics, by no means ought to we deal with Iranian girls with such cruelty.”
This doesn’t imply that the headband, which grew to become obligatory after the Islamic revolution of 1979, is to be abolished. It is simply that the regime, which takes care of its survival in each method, opens and closes the “valve” of oppression by sometimes letting “licensed” reformers occupy the presidency and kind of strictly implementing the obligatory headband.
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