NEW DELHI: Iran initiated the official registration for presidential candidates on Thursday for a snap election subsequent month, following the sudden demise of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
“Candidate registration for the 14th presidential elections started at 8am (0430 GMT)… on the inside ministry,” introduced the official IRNA information company.
Presidential hopefuls have a five-day window to register, IRNA mentioned.
Initially scheduled for 2025, the elections had been preponed on account of Raisi’s sudden passing on Could 19.
Raisi and 7 people, together with international minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, had been killed when their helicopter crashed on a misty mountainside in northern Iran.
The Islamic republic’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appointed vice chairman Mohammad Mokhber, 68, because the caretaker president after the accident, as per the constitutional directive.
State TV reported that “round 30 individuals” got here ahead to submit their candidacies on Thursday however indicated, “none of them met the essential circumstances for qualification.”
In response to Iran’s electoral regulation, candidates should be aged between 40 and 75 and possess at the very least a grasp’s diploma.
Like earlier election cycles, the primary candidates from Iran’s key political factions are anticipated to submit their functions nearer to the tip of the registration interval.
The Guardian Council, a 12-member panel of jurists appointed or accepted by the supreme chief, will announce the ultimate listing of candidates on June 11.
Throughout the 2021 presidential elections, this physique disqualified a number of reformist and average candidates, resulting in the election of the ultraconservative Raisi.
That election witnessed a report low voter turnout, with solely 48.8% participation.
“Candidate registration for the 14th presidential elections started at 8am (0430 GMT)… on the inside ministry,” introduced the official IRNA information company.
Presidential hopefuls have a five-day window to register, IRNA mentioned.
Initially scheduled for 2025, the elections had been preponed on account of Raisi’s sudden passing on Could 19.
Raisi and 7 people, together with international minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, had been killed when their helicopter crashed on a misty mountainside in northern Iran.
The Islamic republic’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appointed vice chairman Mohammad Mokhber, 68, because the caretaker president after the accident, as per the constitutional directive.
State TV reported that “round 30 individuals” got here ahead to submit their candidacies on Thursday however indicated, “none of them met the essential circumstances for qualification.”
In response to Iran’s electoral regulation, candidates should be aged between 40 and 75 and possess at the very least a grasp’s diploma.
Like earlier election cycles, the primary candidates from Iran’s key political factions are anticipated to submit their functions nearer to the tip of the registration interval.
The Guardian Council, a 12-member panel of jurists appointed or accepted by the supreme chief, will announce the ultimate listing of candidates on June 11.
Throughout the 2021 presidential elections, this physique disqualified a number of reformist and average candidates, resulting in the election of the ultraconservative Raisi.
That election witnessed a report low voter turnout, with solely 48.8% participation.