Six candidates, most of them conservative, have been allowed to run in Iran’s June 28 presidential election to succeed Ibrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Might, the nation’s inside ministry stated right this moment.
These candidates have been chosen by the Council of the Guardians of the Structure, an unelected, conservative-dominated physique tasked with overseeing the electoral course of, from amongst 80 candidates.
Among the many candidates eligible to run for workplace are conservative Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani and Stated Jalili, the previous ultra-conservative nuclear negotiator.
Additionally chosen have been Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, the ultraconservative head of the Martyrs Basis, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a former inside minister.
The one reformer on the checklist of candidates is Masoud Pezheskian, an MP for town of Tabriz (northwest) and former well being minister.
As a substitute, the Council disqualified Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who on the age of 67 sought to return to the place of president, which he held from 2005 to 2013. He had already been disqualified within the 2021 and 2017 presidential elections.
One other veteran of the Islamic Republic’s political scene, Ali Larijani, a former parliament speaker who is taken into account a reasonable, was additionally excluded.
The Council of the Guards of the Structure didn’t publicly justify its selections.
Within the 2021 elections, this physique chosen simply seven candidates out of 592 contenders, excluding many reformers and reasonable politicians. That is precisely what paved the way in which for Ebrahim Raisi, the candidate of the conservative and ultra-conservative camp, to be simply elected within the first spherical.
Solely 49% of Iranian voters had participated in that election, the bottom turnout for a presidential election for the reason that 1979 Islamic revolution.
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