The second round of the twelfth parliamentary elections of the Iranian regime in Tehran was held with an “8 percent turnout” of the people and the qualification of representatives to the parliament with a significant vote.
In this regard, the regime’s Alef website, belonging to Ahmad Tavakoli, a member of the regime’s Expediency Discernment Council, has warned about the country’s political future.
The state-run Farhikhtegan newspaper reported on Saturday, May 11, that unofficial statistics indicate an “8 percent turnout in Tehran,” and thus, “the qualified representatives to the parliament will go to the parliament with a Considerable vote.”
The Election Headquarters of the Ministry of Interior announced a total of more than 522,000 votes in the ballot boxes of the electoral districts of “Tehran, Shemiranat, Islamshahr, and Pardis.”
The second round of Majlis (parliamentary) elections was held under conditions where Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the regime, had said, referring to the “lack of difference between the first and second stages of elections”: “The importance of the second stage is no less than the first stage, and the people should complete the parliament by participating in this stage of the elections.”
The recent elections for the Majlis and the Majlis of Experts in early March faced extensive boycott from the people and recorded the lowest participation rate in the history of the Iranian regime.
The very low turnout of voters in the second round of parliamentary elections in Iran has elicited numerous reactions from political figures, activists, journalists, and social media users.
In this regard, the Alef website wrote on Saturday, May 11, that “the twelfth parliamentary elections have shown that the issue of participation is becoming a serious problem for the country.”
The website added, referring to the low participation of voters as “undesirable statistics in the second round of parliamentary elections, especially in Tehran”: “Deep-rooted problems in the country and the inefficiency of individuals and political currents in removing obstacles have led to indifference and a high level of neglect and passing through currents that are the anchor of the country’s political atmosphere.”
Alef noted: “This political atmosphere’s chill, even a year away from the fourteenth presidential election, has sounded alarm bells,” and added: “Today, the decline in living standards, rampant inflation, class divide, and injustice have not overlooked the borders of dissatisfaction, and these fundamental problems have targeted the foundations of the country’s political and social structure.”
The website warned: “Let’s hear the real pains of the nation before it’s too late!”
