Iran elections: More candidates throw hats into ring on final day of registration
More contenders are throwing their hats into the ring for Iran’s upcoming presidential elections on the fifth and final day of registration.
A dozen candidates, including some prominent political figures, filed their nominations on Monday.
The most high-profile candidates who registered on Monday to run were Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and former first vice president Es'haq Jahangiri.
Speaking to reporters after the registration, Qalibaf said the elites have called on him to join the race. He added that experience and skill are the key to conquer the peak.
Jahangiri also told reporters that he has decided to enter the competition in the hope of taking steps to correct the existing wrong approaches and procedures and create new capacities.
The snap election is slated for June 28 and will elect a new president to replace Ebrahim Raeisi, who died in a tragic helicopter crash in northwestern Iran on May 19 along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six of their companions.
The candidates must be vetted and approved by the Guardian Council. The country's 12-member election supervisory body will then release the final list of qualified candidates on June 11.
Those cleared by the vetting body will have two weeks to campaign, present their manifestos and participate in televised debates before the election.
Some high-profile candidates from both the Principlist and Reformist camps as well as Centrists have filed their nominations in the past days.
They include former parliament speaker Ali Larijani, Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani, former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati, Mehrdad Bazrpash, the current Minister of Roads and Urban Development, and Solat Mortazavi, Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.
Four former female members of Parliament -- Zohreh Elahian, Hajar Chenarani, Hamideh Zarabadi and Rafat Bayat-- also filed their names to run for the presidency.
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