Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ken Livingstone (Labour), on Wednesday, 28 October 1998, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 20 members in total.

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ELECTIONS IN IRAN

That this House notes that the elections to Iran's Assembly of Experts have resulted in over 70 per cent. of the seats being won by candidates of the Association of Militant Clerics and their allies but that, as all candidates had first to be approved by a supervisory board before they were allowed to stand and during that process almost all candidates associated with Iran's moderate president Mohammed Khatami were barred from standing, these elections have been exposed as an undemocratic farce with voters registering their opposition to the vetting of candidates by refusing to vote; and therefore calls on the Prime Minister to protest to the Iranian government and point out that such practices are unacceptable in any modern democracy.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1713 

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Candidates Elections Vetting Iran

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk