Iran’s Guardian Council on Sunday accredited six candidates, largely conservatives, for the June 28 election to interchange President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash.
The candidates introduced by the Interior Ministry have been chosen from 80 registered hopefuls by the Guardian Council, which oversees elections within the Islamic republic.
Among these accredited are the conservative parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and the ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
Just one reformist candidate, Massoud Pezeshkian, who’s a lawmaker representing Tabriz in Iran’s parliament, has been accredited.
The conservative former Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi has additionally been approved to run.
Others on the listing embrace conservative Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakaani and incumbent Vice President Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi, the ultraconservative head of the Martyrs’ Foundation.
Former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was beforehand disqualified from getting into the presidential races in 2017 and 2021, was once more excluded from the listing.
Others together with reasonable ex-parliament speaker Ali Larijani and Vahid Haghanian, a former commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, have been additionally barred from standing.
In the 2021 elections, the Guardian Council disqualified a number of reformist and reasonable figures forward of the presidential elections which introduced the ultraconservative Raisi to energy.
Those elections had a document low turnout for a presidential ballot, at simply 48.8%.
Source: www.dailysabah.com