Over 11,000 qualified for parliamentary elections: Constitutional Council
National Desk
Iran’s Constitutional Council said on Friday that more than 11,000 people have been qualified for the March parliamentary elections.
The spokesman of the Constitutional Council, Hadi Tahan Nazif, said that the final list of candidates has been sent to the Interior Ministry.
He said that more than 21,000 people were eligible to register for the elections, of whom around 11,000 have been approved by the council. Tahan Nazif added that 26 current lawmakers have been disqualified.
To secure victory and serve as a lawmaker for a four-year term in the 290-seat Parliament, a candidate needs to attain a minimum of 20 percent of the votes cast in its constituency.
Iran will hold the 12th parliamentary elections on March 1 – the day which also sees elections for the Assembly of Experts.
Tahan Nazif also said that the names of the qualified candidates for the Assembly of Experts elections will be announced on January 24.