2016 Iran Parliamentary & Assembly of Experts elections results were declared. The elections were held for 290 parliamentary seats in which 146 seats are needed for the majority.
In the election claimed to be a fight between the hardliners & reformists led by the President Hassan Rouhani, no other party was able to prove majority. The election, 1st in Iran after 2015 nuclear deal and lifting of international sanctions, that was held on held on 26th February 2016.
Final results showed seats being shared 3 ways between Rouhani’s reformist and moderate allies, conservatives and independents. But the tallies suggested that the President would be able to muster support from key backers & create a working majority. This can happen as moderates & the moderate conservatives won the enough seats to obtain a coalition majority over the hard line bloc.
In the fight between the reformists and hardliners, the hardliners also lost their seats in the country’s 88 members Assembly of Experts (that will choose country’s next supreme leader once Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dies during its 8 year term).
The results of the election & coalition majority once proved will help Iran to fetch a good image in the international arena. It will also help the nation in bringing in gradual changes in its nuclear programme, brokered by the President Barack Obama and criticised by his American political adversaries.
2016 Iran Parliamentary & Assembly of Experts Election results declared
