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Candidates officially start electoral campaigns for Irans parliamentary votes

Candidates officially start electoral campaigns for Irans parliamentary votes
Press TV - Nominees qualified by the Guardian Council to run at Irans upcoming parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections havestarted their electoral campaigns eight days before the voting begins.

The campaigns officially started at 00:00 Thursday (20:30 GMT, Wednesday), and the candidates will have one week to win the peoples support for their candidacy.

The 11th parliamentary elections and the midterm elections for the Assembly of Experts a body whose members designate the countrys Leader are to be held simultaneously on February 21.

The candidates will have until Wednesday night to promote themselves, and after that, there will be a 24-hour silenceuntil the voting begins on Friday morning.

The elections, held every four years, are scheduled to take place on February 21. A second round could take place in the second month of the next year on the solar calendar (April 20-May 20, 2020) if some seats remain vacant.

Last year, Iran's Majlis (parliament) objected to a motion to increase the number of the seats, keeping the figure at 290.

A total of 57,918,000 people are eligible to cast their ballots, therefore; there would be one lawmaker at Majlis per each 190,000-strong segment of the Iranian population.
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