Registration for Iran's local election kicks off
Registration for Iran's City and Village Council elections kicked off on Monday.
The first day of registration for City and Village Councils election which is scheduled to be held on 19 May 2017, began on Monday.
Candidates for Iranian local election have attended the Tehran governor center from early morning to officially announce their candidacy for the fifth round of City and Village Councils election.
“Hadi Saei”, “Ali Saberi” and “Abdolhossein Mokhtabad” former members of the City Council of Tehran and “Shahrbanoo Amani”, “Ebrahim Asgharzade” and “Ebrahim Amini” political activists were among those who attended and officially registered to enter the race on the local election day.
Meantime, “Issa Farhadi”, Tehran’s governor also attended the registration process and visited the site.
There were reports of the participation of “Bita Saharkhiz”, Iranian actress and “Rahmatollah Khosravi” former parliament member, “Sadreddin Alipour” top environmental official and other political and media activist who registered for running in the election.
It has also been reported that “Seyyed Shahoboddin Chavoshi”, Head of the Tehran election office and state (provincial) political governor also attended the site and visited the process of registration.
“Morteza Alviri”, former Tehran Mayor also registered for the race.
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