Iran approves six candidates for June 28 presidential vote

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By AFP

09 June 2024 | 12:35 p.m.

Iran connected Sunday announced the six candidates, mostly conservatives, approved for the June 28 predetermination to regenerate President Ebrahim Raisi

Iran connected Sunday announced the six candidates, mostly conservatives, approved for the June 28 predetermination to regenerate President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed successful a chopper crash.

The candidates announced by the interior ministry were selected from 80 registered hopefuls by the Guardian Council, which oversees elections successful the Islamic republic.

Among those approved are the blimpish talker of parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and the ultraconservative erstwhile atomic negotiator Saeed Jalili.

Just 1 reformist candidate, Massoud Pezeshkian, who is simply a lawmaker representing Tabriz successful Iran’s parliament, has been approved.

The blimpish erstwhile interior curate Mostafa Pourmohammadi has besides been authorised to run.

Others connected the database see blimpish Tehran politician Alireza Zakaani and incumbent vice president Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi, the ultraconservative caput of the Martyrs’ Foundation.

Former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was antecedently disqualified from entering the statesmanlike races successful 2017 and 2021, was again excluded from the list.

Others including mean ex-parliament talker Ali Larijani and Vahid Haghanian, a erstwhile commandant successful Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, were besides barred from standing.

In the 2021 elections, the Guardian Council disqualified aggregate reformist and mean figures up of the statesmanlike elections which brought the ultraconservative Raisi to power.

Those elections had a grounds debased turnout for a statesmanlike poll, astatine conscionable 48.8 percent.

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