Iranian Parliament is preparing a bill to reform presidential elections. It reportedly reportedly calls for the creation of a council, with representative from the three branches of government, to be involved in running the elections.
Tag: Elections
Reformists Will not Participate in Elections
As the Principlists and their media in the Islamic republic strive to co-opt reformers to participate in the upcoming presidential elections next year, and as conflicting reports on the issue appear in the news world, a number of reformers told official media outlets that they would not be participating in the presidential elections next […]
Rafsanjani Calls for Free Elections
The head of Iran’s powerful State Expediency Council and two-time president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has called for “All the phases of the future presidential elections to be held legally, transparently and freely.”
Reformists try to gather momentum for coming elections
Iranian reformists are proposing a number of possible candidates for next year’s presidential elections, says Daryoosh Ghanbari, a spokesman for Parliament’s minority faction.
Human Rights Watch questions transparency of Iranian elections
Human Rights Watch has announced that Iran’s ninth parliamentary elections are “grossly unfair” due to “arbitrary disqualifications and other restrictions.”
Opposition group calls for boycott of elections
Members and supporters of the dissident political group Freedom Movement of Iran have called for an “active boycott” of the March 2 parliamentary elections.
Iranian opposition is boycotting and calling for free and fair elections
Washington, D.C. – United4Iran, a nonpartisan human and civil rights nonprofit organization, has issued a statement today outlining deep concerns about the escalating crackdown by the Iranian government on expression and assembly ahead of the March 2, 2012 parliamentary elections.
‘Upcoming elections lack minimum conditions’ say former MPs
GVF — A group of former Iranian lawmakers have called on the Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to take action in light of the Islamic Republic’s violation of the Union’s principles.
Workers barred from running in elections
Alireza Mahjoub, the head of Iran’s House of Workers, says the new election law prevents workers from becoming representatives and getting into Parliament.
Will Women Participate in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections?
In examining the eight Islamic Republic parliaments, from the very first Parliament, which included only four women, despite the historic role that women played in the success of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, to the fourth one, in which a record 14 women became lawmakers, and then to the sixth Parliament, which did the most […]