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* [[Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei]], First Vice President of Iran (2009), Chief Staff of the President (since 2009)<ref name="bigstory1">{{cite news|title=IRAN'S RAFSANJANI REGISTERS FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iran-politicians-register-presidential-race|work=Associated Press|accessdate=11 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei]], First Vice President of Iran (2009), Chief Staff of the President (since 2009)<ref name="bigstory1">{{cite news|title=IRAN'S RAFSANJANI REGISTERS FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iran-politicians-register-presidential-race|work=Associated Press|accessdate=11 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Manouchehr Mottaki]], Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005–2010)<ref name=AlM>[http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/iran-presidential-campaign.html Presidential Race Begins in Iran], ''[[Al-Monitor]]'', 11 December 2012</ref>
* [[Manouchehr Mottaki]], Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005–2010)<ref name=AlM>[http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/iran-presidential-campaign.html Presidential Race Begins in Iran], ''[[Al-Monitor]]'', 11 December 2012</ref>

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Iranian presidential election, 2013

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Nominee Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf Mohsen Rezaee Reza Aref
Party JAM MDP IIPF

Incumbent President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Conservative



The eleventh election of the President of Iran is scheduled to be held on Friday, 14 June 2013. If no presidential candidate polls 50 percent of the vote on the first round, a runoff will be held on 21 June. It will elect the seventh President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The election will take place on the same day as local council elections [1] The Guardian Council, a 12-member body consisting of six jurists and six theologians, is tasked with vetting hopefuls for their qualifications and confirming the election results.

Background

The President of Iran is the highest Iranian official to be elected by direct popular vote, he is the chief of the executive, after the "Leader of the Revolution" the second most important person of Iran. His duties are much the same as all other heads of governments but the Comander in Head of the Armed Forces is the Leader and it is also the leader who choses the chief justice. All Iranian citizens that have been born in Iran, believe in God and the official religion of iran (shiite islam), have always been loyal to the Constitution (meaning no criminal background), and above 21 years of age are allowed to sign up as candidates. An Institution called Election Monitoring Agency (EMA) which is managed by the Guardian Council controls the credentials of the registered candidates (in the last elections 36000 people signed up as candidates)and vetes them down to a handful candidates[citation needed]. The iranian constitution demands that if there are more than 200 candidates the guardian council's EMA is to evaluate these and select the most competent ones. There is a list of criteria (i.e. higehst educated, public service record, active military service record,etc) based on which the candidates are suposed to be vetted for the election.

Last election

Iran's tenth presidential election was held on 12 June 2009,[2] with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast,[3] and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast.[4][5] The European Union,[6] the United Kingdom[7] the United States, and several western countries expressed concern over alleged irregularities during the vote,[6] and many analysts and journalists from the United States, Europe and other western based media voiced doubts about the authenticity of the results.[8][9][10] Meanwhile many OIC member states, as well as Russia, China, India, and Brazil, congratulated Ahmadinejad on his victory.

Mousavi issued a statement saying, "I'm warning that I won't surrender to this charade," and urged his supporters to fight the decision, without committing acts of violence.[8] Protests, in favour of Mousavi and against the alleged fraud, broke out in Tehran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad, labeling his victory as a "divine assessment".[11] Mousavi lodged an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council on 14 June.[12] On 15 June, Khamenei announced there would be an investigation into vote-rigging claims, which would take seven to ten days.[13] On 16 June, the Guardian Council announced it will recount the votes. However, Mousavi stated that 14 million unused ballots were missing, giving a chance to manipulate the results.[14] On 29 June, Iran's electoral board completed the partial recount, and concluded that Ahmadinejad won the election, amidst protest from the opposition.[15]

Electoral law

One of the issues that have been raised in the pre-election debate over electoral reforms, especially regarding enforcement, situations of candidates. Executive of elections under previous law was Ministry of Interior (Government) and there were statements about changing of maintaining law. In addition, the law provided that the candidate must be political men and it was not known the meaning of men. The changes was began after the protests to the previous election.

Changes

The new act of the elections was approved by the parliament on 17 December 2012 and was significated by speaker of the parliament, Ali Larijani to the president for official implementation. Some of the changes are explained:

Act Before After (Changed)
18 / 31
  • Ministry of Interior must announce the results
  • Ministry of Interior is the only official reference of the election.
  • Electoral Commission will announce the results after the Ministry of Interior confirmation*.
  • Ministry of Interior, under the Electoral Commission are the official references of the election.
64
  • Debates can be recorded.
  • Debates must be live.
  • If extortion about one candidate, he have mandate to defense him/herself in next programs.

Electoral Commission

For the first time in the history of Iranian presidential elections, a commission of eleventh persons (three legal, seven experts, one from parliament) will be supervised to the elections.[16][17]

Nominations

Registration for candidates took place from 7 May and concluded on 11 May 2013.[1][18] After the registration step, registered candidates must be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to be on the ballot.[19] On May 7, Sadeq Vaez Zadeh was the first candidate who officially registered.[20] After the registration phase, Guardian Council must review candidate's qualifications and announce list of approved candidates in 5 days after registration. However, the date was extended for another three days by Guardian Council.

Conservatives

Reformists

Disqualified

Withdrew

The following candidates had registered for the election but withdrew their candidacy after registration.

Declined

Campaigns

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Mohammad Khatami, former president of Iran supported Rafsanjani to sign on for election. In response to calls to nominate himself, Khatami issued a statement on his website, saying, "Even if we get a chance to run in the election, we won’t have the right to receive more than a certain number of votes".[60]

Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf

The following three candidates also known as 2+1 formed a coalition between themselves that one of the three will register for the election and the remaining two will support him, however all of those registered and the main candidate will be announced in a later which it is possible that all will be enter to the elections. This coalition consist of Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Ali Akbar Velayati and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, whoever there are rumors that Ghalibaf will be the main candidate and two others will support him[61]

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei

On the other hand, Ahmadinejad invited Mashaei to accompany him on his latest tour of the country, showcasing him to the people. Ahmadinejad has thrown his full support behind Mashaei, saying "Mashaei means Ahmadinejad, and Ahmadinejad means Mashaei".[62][63]

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani

This political group was founded by former Ahmadinejad ministers and supporters who believe in his election message but they are not supporting his actions anymore. For the following election, their main candidates are among Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Saeed Jalili and Parviz Fattah.[64][65] Kamran Bagheri Lankarani was elected as their candidate on 20 April 2013.

Manouchehr Mottaki

The following announced candidates will also chose one with most popularity to officially register for the election. On May 9 after selection of Aboutorabi Fard was announced, Mottaki declared he will not accept this selection and will run separately:[66]

Mostafa Kavakebian

On 15 January 2013, Democracy party elected their party leader, Mostafa Kavakebian as their sole candidate for the upcoming election. Kavakebian also said that he will withdraw if Mohammad Khatami announced his candidacy.[citation needed]

Opinion polls

Poll source Date(s) administered Rafsanjani Mashaei Ghalibaf Jalili Rezaei Rouhani Velayati Aref Haddad-Adel Others Undecided
Rasanehiran[67] 11 May 2013
22%
15% 21% 10% 9% 7% 7% 5% 2% 1% 1%
Akharinnews[68] 12 May 2013
39.54%
7.21% 1.75% 24.74% 2.75% 7.68% 17.39%
Alborznews[69] 13 May 2013 12.04% 5.04%
15.08%
1.00% 5.07% 0.05% 8.07% 1.03% 7.06% 18.06% 9.03%
ie92[70] 14 May 2013
34%
6% 18% 7% 12% 8% 7% 1% 1% 4% 2%
Arnanews[71] 15 May 2013
62.4%
8.4% 8.8% 9.3% 3.9% 0.2% 3.3% 0.4% 0.3% 3.1%
Iranelect[72] 15–16 May 2013
47%
21% 14% 10% 7%
Kashanjc[73] 16 May 2013 7.49% 1.94%
43.25%
1.25% 5.81% 1.97% 24.04% 2.21% 6.46% 4.17%
ie92[70] 17 May 2013
38%
6% 16% 7% 11% 7% 6% 1% 1% 5% 2%
Iranamerica[74] 18 May 2013 11.11%
33.33%
11.11% 22.22% 11.11%
ie92[70] 19 May 2013
41%
6% 15% 7% 10% 7% 6% 1% 1% 5% 1%
AleF[75] 20 May 2013 15.5% 3.6%
19.8%
11.6% 4.6% 12.5% 13.2% 12.5 4.7% 1% 1%
Farsnews[75] 21 May 2013 19.6% 12.3%
20.1%
13.5% 10.9% 6.6% 7.4% 3.3% 3.1% 0.2% 3%
ie92[70] 15–20 May 2013 15.0% 5.3%
15.8%
14.7% 9.5% 8.0% 14.7% 12.0% 4.4% 0.1% 0.5%

Election

Timeline

  • 7 May – The official registration of candidates began at Ministry of Interior.
  • 11 May – The time for registration was ended at 18:00 PM.
  • 21 May – The final list of candidates was announced by Minister of Interior, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar. A number of 8 candidates are eligible to participating in the election.
  • 24 May – Official propagation campaigns for the final candidates will began.
  • 13 June – End of campaigns.
  • 14 June – Election date.
  • 15 June – Official results will be announced by Presidential Commission.
  • 20 June – Guardian Council will confirmed/unconfirmed the election results.
  • 1 August – President-elect will meet with Ali Khamenei.
  • 3 August – Inauguration of new President.

See also

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