Iran's election: Ex-Tehran mayor says presidential candidates lack 'coherent plan for effective cabinet
The ex-Tehran mayor, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, has criticised Iran’s presidential candidates for lack of coherent plan to install effective cabinet after the upcoming election.
The ex-Tehran mayor, Karbaschi, was shocked at the number of registered candidates for the Iran’s presidential election come June 28, and had mocked the aspirants for having no clear objectives while seeking for the position.
Karbaschi, a prominent figure in the centrist, pro-reform Executives of Construction Party, described the country’s mass registration of candidates for the upcoming Iranian presidential election ‘as a child’s play’.
The former mayor of Tehran also condemned Iran’s government for not upholding democracy: They “They have turned the country’s main symbol of democracy into a stand-up comedy.”
He believes the election is ‘not really necessary’, because, according to him, the Iranian supreme leader will ‘definitely project his favourite candidate, manipulating the official voting process’.
However, several reformist theorists, including Saeed Hajarian, have expressed disgust at the fake registration of many candidates by the state ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
Karbaschi, on X, said top officials of the government have no clear-cut direction or plans, merely fixated on enjoying the public attention they receive.
“A neat suit, a few slow steps, showing the ID card, a few camera flashes… That’s it! They talk neither of a coherent plan nor of the potential members of an effective cabinet,” he said
The ex-mayor, a close ally of former President Mohammad Khatami, was previously arrested and imprisoned on corruption charges in a case that the New York Times described as “widely seen among moderates as a politically motivated attack” by conservatives and hard-liners, Iranintl said.
The country’s presidential election is set to hold on June 28 a few weeks after the unfortunate death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19.
The country’s news media said, the registration which began last week Thursday has nearly 90 percent of the candidates who belong to the pro-regime camp.
