Iran
Iran’s reformers on course for Success
According to the progressive Numbering of the elections in a Triumph of the fashion rates could force the President Rouhani. The said already optimistic. The blamierten losers will be the hard-liners.
Signal of approval: Indirectly, it was decided on the reform policies of President Hassan Rouhani
After the parliamentary elections in Iran, there are the first signs of a strong performance of the Reformer. The camp of the hardliners remain behind. Such as the semi-state Fars news Agency reports, in many cities of moderate and independent candidates to the front. In the capital, Tehran, the first Counts indicate an overwhelming success of the reformers. According to the interior Ministry, Mohammed-Reza Aref, the top candidate of the reformers, before the hardliners Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel. President Hassan Rouhani spoke by a strengthening of his government, which had gained credibility and Power. .
The absolute majority of the 290 seats in the since 2004, anti-Western, Conservative-dominated Parliament is not expected to reach the Reformer according to the first estimates. However, strong growth would be a clear Signal for the course of Rowhani’s – a vote for the economic reforms and rapprochement with the West, which was in the Wake of the international nuclear agreement possible.
Vote for reforms? Women in front of a polling booth in Qom
The election deadline is extended several times
For a reliable forecast it is, of course, still too early. So far, only a quarter of the votes was evaluated. Alone in the capital, Tehran, with an estimated 15 million inhabitants in the Metropolitan area of the counting is expected to take three days. The turnout was, according to the Ministry of the interior, at 60 percent. 33 of 55 million Eligible had voted. Due to the high demand – as it was officially called – opened the polling stations six hours longer than planned.
4844 candidates were the only candidates for the parliamentary election, including nearly 500 women. But the conservative Council of guardians had been excluded from the originally more than 12,000 candidates the most part. At the same time, the expert was chosen by a panel of 88 of the spiritual, the will to choose after the death of the spiritual head of a successor. Here are, according to initial projections, the Reformer Ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Rohani in the lead.
jj/SC (dpa, rtr, afp)