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Applications for Iran's Presidential election to open on Thursday

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Mon / 27 May 2024 / 18:51

Iranian Interior Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, announced that applications for candidates running for the Presidential Elections will be opened for reception starting Thursday.

Tehran -ISNA- Speaking with reporters, Vahidi stated "Registration of candidates for the fourteenth presidential term in Iran will begin Thursday, as the governors of the provinces have been informed to form election committees."

He added that the next president should continue the martyred President Ebrahim Raisi's career.

Currently, Vice President Mohammad Mokhber is acting as Iran's interim president, as per Article 131 of the constitution, calling on him and the heads of the judiciary and legislative authorities to organize the presidential elections.

Iran's Guardian Council and the Elections Commission decided that elections would be held on June 28 to appoint a new president for the country on July 8.

According to the approved electoral calendar, candidates will be registered during the period from May 21 to June 3. Then, the Constitutional Council will study the eligibility of candidates between June 4 and June 10.

Then, on June 11, the Ministry of Interior will announce the approved candidates and the electoral campaigns will continue afterward until June 26.

On June 28, the presidential elections will be held, but the tentative schedule may change, taking into account that the 50-day deadline will end in the first week of July.

It has been confirmed on Monday 20 May that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was martyred in a tragic helicopter crash on Sunday in the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan, following the return from the working trip. His entire entourage, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Governor of East Azerbaijan Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, the Imam for Friday prayers in the city of Tabriz also perished.

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