Iran parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf publicizes presidential bid | Information

Ghalibaf is amongst presidential hopefuls looking for approval to run for the June 28 snap elections.

The conservative speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has registered his candidacy for the snap presidential election on June 28.

On the finish of the five-day registration interval on Monday night, Inside Minister Ahmad Vahidi instructed reporters {that a} whole of 80 purposes have been submitted.

The presidential hopefuls now have to attend till June 11 to see if their candidacy is accepted by the Guardian Council – a conservative-dominated, 12-member physique of jurists who’re both appointed or accepted by Iran’s supreme chief and vet all candidates for public workplace.

Candidates cleared by the vetting physique could have two weeks to marketing campaign, current their manifestos, and take part in televised debates earlier than the election.

The upcoming vote, initially slated for 2025, was introduced ahead following the loss of life of President Ebrahim Raisi on Might 19.

Raisi and 7 members of his entourage, together with overseas minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, had been killed when their helicopter got here down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran.

Financial issues

Ghalibaf ran for president beforehand in 2005 and 2013, and in 2017 withdrew from the race in favour of Raisi who completed second to Hassan Rouhani, giving the reasonable chief a second time period.

After formally registering his candidacy, Ghalibaf vowed to enhance the financial system if elected.

“If I don’t run for election, the work that we now have began in the previous few years to unravel the financial drawback of the individuals … won’t be accomplished,” he stated.

He added that he “would by no means have entered the sector of competitors” if he didn’t consider that Iran’s financial and social issues might be solved.

Ghalibaf, 62, is a former commander of the air pressure of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a part of Iran’s army.

He was re-elected parliament speaker on Might 28 following a legislative election in March.

An Iran-Iraq struggle veteran, Ghalibaf was mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017 and earlier than that was chief of the Iranian police forces.

Candidate registration opened on Thursday and closed on Monday.

Different distinguished figures together with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reasonable ex-parliament speaker Ali Larijani and ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili have additionally registered their bids.

With Ghalibaf submitting his nomination, specialists consider Jalili’s probabilities of making it to the end line have develop into bleak.

Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani can also be prone to withdraw in favour of Ghalibaf.