Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 18 /Trend, T.Jafarov/
The representatives of each movement and each party, supported by the people, should run for elections and be elected, the Chairman of the Advisory Council of Iran, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said at a meeting with the representatives of the Democratic People's Party of Iran on Tuesday, Iranian İLNA news agency reported.
Parliamentary elections in Iran are held every four years. The next, ninth parliamentary elections will be held on March 12, 2012. The are 290 members of the Parliament. The Parliament discusses the issue of increasing the number of members by ten people in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
According to Rafsanjani, Iran should create conditions for the independent activities of the parties and the media in order to conduct transparent elections.
According to Iranian media, there are 260 political parties in Iran, some of which operate as various societies, movements and other structures. Of them, only 60 percent operates.
Iran's political spectrum actually consists of three camps - the reformers, conservatives and moderate supporters of both conservative and reformist wing of the ruling Iranian clergy. The camp of reformers includes 47 parties, conservatives - 35, moderate - 25.
Recently, in connection with the dissatisfaction that emerged after the 2009 presidential elections, some members of the ruling camp of the conservatives began to talk about the need to create conditions for the participation of the reformers in the upcoming parliamentary elections.