Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 29
By Farhad Daneshvar - Trend:
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli has confirmed that the reformist-backed candidates have secured all 30 seats of parliament for Tehran constituency.
All elected lawmakers are from the List of Hope, a pro-President Hassan Rouhani coalition of moderates and reformists, Rahmani-Fazli told reporters in a televised press conference in Tehran.
The interior minister dismissed having a run-off in Tehran for the parliament election.
Saying that 62 percent of countrywide entitled voters participated in the election, the minister further added that the turnout rate in Tehran was 50 percent.
Iranians voted on Friday in elections for the 290-seat parliament and the 88-seat Assembly of Experts, a powerful clerical body that appoints the country's supreme leader.
Reformist Mohammad Reza Aref, a former vice president gained the most votes in Tehran, being followed by former conservative, reformists-backed Ali Motahari.
Meanwhile, a former Iranian parliament speaker, conservative Gholamali Hadad Adel, failed to secure a seat in parliament.
Flawless victory: Parliament "closed" for Tehran conservative candidates
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli has confirmed that the reformist-backed candidates have secured all 30 seats of parliament for Tehran constituency.
