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Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Iran on 19 May 2017. It will be the twelfth presidential election in Iran. Local elections will be held alongside of this election.
Electoral system
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Eligibility
Any Iranian citizen born in Iran, believing in God and the official religion of Iran (Islam), who has always been loyal to the Constitution and is above 21 years of age may register as a presidential candidate. An institution called the Election Monitoring Agency (EMA) and managed by the Guardian Council vets registered candidates (in the 2009 election 36,000 people signed up as candidates) and approves a handful to run in the election. The Guardian Council does not announce publicly the reason a particular candidate is rejected, although those reasons are explained to each candidate. Women who register as candidates have invariably been excluded from standing for election by the Council.[1][2]
Timeline
According to the official dates announced on 1 April 2017 by the Ministry of Interior:[3]
- 11 April - Start of the election process with the Minister of the Interior's order
- 11–13 April - Governors establish Executive Boards
- 11–15 April – Registration period for candidates
- 15 April – Registration ends at 18:00 IRDT
- 16 April – Guardian Council begins vetting registered candidates
- 20 April – Guardian Council addresses objections from disqualified candidates
- 20 April – Final list of candidates announced
- 21 April – Final candidates launch official campaigns
- 17 May – End of campaigns
- 19 May – Election date
Candidates
On 20 April 2017, Guardian Council announced a list of 6 approved candidates. The list is contains incumbent president Hassan Rouhani, Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, Astan Quds Razavi chairman Ebrahim Raisi, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Mostafa Mir-Salim and Mostafa Hashemitaba.[4] The nomination of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his vice president Hamid Baqai was rejected by the council.[5]
Approved candidates
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Disqualified candidates
Withdrew
- Ghodrat-Ali Heshmatian, former MP[29]
Campaign
Debates and TV programs
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) will provide each candidate with 210 minutes for campaign talks on TV,[30] and there would be three debate sessions on politics, economics, and social pressing issues aired on Channel 1.[31] On 20 April 2017, Election Campaign Monitoring Commission announced that there would be no live debates and it will broadcast prerecorded,[32] however, after vast criticism from candidates and Iranian people the commission revoked its desicion two days later.[33] Candidates are scheduled to air dedicated programmes on IRIB TV channels and radio stations, 555 minutes for each per candidate, and a sum of 1,470 minutes including the debates.[34]
Tactical nomination of Jahangiri
Rouhani and I are side-by-side.
President Rouhani's ally and first vice president Eshaq Jahangiri is standing in the election to support him during the campaign and in TV debates,[36] being called as a ‘fender’ or ‘cover candidate’ by Iranian media,[37] and will possibly later withdraw in support of the incumbent president.[38] The idea was allegedly recommended by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,[37] who was a key backer of Rouhani before his death in January 2017.[36] Another reason for the nomination was to have an ‘alternative candidate’ in case the Guardian Council disqualified Rouhani[39] or raise his profile for a bid in 2021.[35]
Conservative consensus candidate
Among the approved candidates, Ebrahim Raisi, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Mostafa Mir-Salim are regarded as figures of the conservative camp, which intended to bring one single candidate for the election.[40]
It is unclear that any of them will drop out in favor of a fellow conservative presumably supported by the conservative umbrella organization in the end.[41]
Endorsements and positions
- Armenian community of Iran maintains 'positive neutrality' and has no common decision on endorsing any candidate.[59]
- Six exiled Kurdish opposition organizations declared in a joint statement that they boycott the election. They include the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Komala, the Kurdistan Communist Party, the Kurdistan Struggle Orgniztaion, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Iranian Kurdistan Communist organization.[60]
Opinion polls
Allegations of foreign interference
Judiciary head remarks
Head of Iran's judicial system Sadeq Larijani warned that enemies have made a “huge investment” to undermine and exploit the elections. “The enemies may want to deal a blow to the Iranian political system during the elections”, he said.[61]
President of Tatarstan visit
On 20 April 2017, Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Tatarstan and Putin's envoy met with candidate Ebrahim Raisi in Mashhad, in his capacity as the Head of Astan Quds Razavi. MP Alireza Rahimi questioned the meeting and asked for explanations about the reasons for this meeting, citing Russian interference in 2016 U.S. election. “The recent meeting raises the suspicion of interference in the elections, which is not appropriate”, he said.[62][63]
Minnikhanov also met vice president Eshaq Jahangiri in Tehran one day earlier, discussing bilateral relations according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.[64]
Reactions
Domestic
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: On 7 March 2017, IRGC commander-in-chief Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said “Like in the past, nobody in the IRGC, neither the guards nor the commanders, is permitted to interfere in the elections politically or factionally and to discredit the candidates”.[65] On 1 May 2017, Deputy IRGC Commander for Political Affairs Gen. Rasoul Sanaei told press that IRGC “will not support any candidate in the May 19 presidential election”.[66]
International
Israel — Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in an interview published on 11 April 2017 said “I wouldn’t be surprised if during the Iranian election on May 19, somebody assassinates the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani”.[67]
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