2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election
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All 88 seats to the Assembly of Experts 45 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||
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 The map for the 2016 election constituencies, which are the Provinces of Iran | ||||||||||
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Assembly of Experts election, 2016 will be held in Iran on 25 February 2016 to elect Assembly of Experts members. The 88 members[1] of the Assembly of Experts, known as mujtahids, are directly elected. The elections had been planned for 2014, but were delayed by a year in order to hold them alongside the Islamic Consultative Assembly elections.
Seats
Number of seats by constituency:[1]
Candidates
Declared candidates
- Reformists
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran (1989–1997)[2]
Potential candidates
- Principlists
- Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Member of Assembly of Experts[2]
- Reformists
- Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran (2013– )[2]
References
- ^ a b "تعداد نمایندگان مجلس خبرگان رهبری افزایش یافت" (in Persian). Iranian Students' News Agency. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "نامزدهای احتمالی انتخابات خبرگان چه کسانی هستند؟/ از هاشمی و خمینی تا آقاتهرانی و غرویان" (in Persian). Khabar Online. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
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