Iran council approves main presidential candidates, Akbar Alami did not pass!
BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1467 days ago | Wednesday, 20th May , 2009 , 11:35 [am] | Azerbaijan
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. | BayBak reports that the coming elections in geographical region called Iran is a main debate for Azerbaijani National Movement. Some believe that this election must be boycotted completely to show suffer, and also the strength of Azerbaijanis. Others believe the election could be used for making relation with the government in case to ask for more freedom. However, Akbar Alami, who was the main candidate accepted by majority is out of play. This makes the decision making process harder. None of the approved candidates are kin to accept non-Fars nationals inside the country. They all promote Farsiness! of the region, at all cost. |
Iran’s constitutional watchdog approved on Wednesday the candidacies of the four leading figures to stand in a June presidential vote, in which hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seeking re-election.
Ahmadinejad and two leading moderate candidates, former premier Mirhossein Mousavi and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karoubi, were qualified to run in the June 12 election.
“The name of candidates … approved by the council are as announced Ahmadinejad, Karoubi, Mousavi and (former head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards) Mohsen Rezai,” said an Interior Ministry statement, quoted by state media.
The 12-man hardline Guardian Council has the power to vet candidates for nationwide elections in Iran.
The four candidates were approved after being screened for their allegiance to Iran’s Islamic government system and “absolute obedience” to the country’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Over 450 hopefuls had registered out of which 42 were women. No women passed the test to stand in the election.
Reformists believe a high turnout would give them a better chance to win the vote. But they say state media have not given sufficient coverage of the election to mobilise Iranian voters.
Ahmadinejad’s moderate rivals say his trips across Iran ahead of the authorised campaigning period are illegal and should be stopped. The government has refused to halt the trips. State radio and television deny being partial.
Some 46 million Iranians aged 18 years and older are eligible to vote in the polls, Iran’s tenth presidential election since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The president regularly rails against the West and vows a return to Islamic revolutionary values. Khamenei has urged Iranians to support anti-Western candidates.
The three other candidates have said Iran needed to have interaction and “policy of detente” with the West, at odds with the Islamic state over its nuclear programme.
Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005 vowing to share out oil wealth more fairly but critics blame him for disappointing economic growth and high inflation. However, his promises of a fairer redistribution of income still resonate with the poor.reuters
BayBak reports that the coming elections in geographical region called Iran is a main debate for Azerbaijani National Movement. Some believe that this election must be boycotted completely to show suffer, and also the strength of Azerbaijanis. Others believe the election could be used for making relation with the government in case to ask for more freedom. However, Akbar Alami, who was the main candidate accepted by majority is out of play. This makes the decision making process harder. None of the approved candidates are kin to accept non-Fars nationals inside the country. They all promote Farsiness! of the region, at all cost.
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