Date set for Iranian presidential election
Iran’s Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog body, which
vets laws and election candidates has announced the date of the
next round of presidential election to be held next year.
The spokesman of the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, has
said that Iran will hold the next round of presidential elections
on 19 May 2017, ISNA news agency reported.
Under Iran’s constitution, outgoing President Hassan Rouhani
will be eligible to run for another term in office.
The 64-year-old Rouhani officially sworn in as Iran's president
August 2013, promising moderation. He is Iran's seventh president
since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Rouhani, a moderate reformist, took the office after controversial
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during whose ruling, the relations between
Iran and the West have significantly deteriorated.
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