Photo: Rezaei Payam (Fars)0740 GMT: We should get the final scenes in the first round of the Parliamentary election today. Press TV announces that 163 candidates have reached the 290-member Majlis, with the rest of the seats to be allocated in a second round of voting in less than two weeks.
There are no details in the article, but we already know many of the names. So we post an analysis, "Rearranging the Political Chairs --- What Has Changed?", which evaluates the show:
Let's not make a drama of this. While the Islamic Republic's system is far too complex to reduce it to the plaything of the Supreme Leader, "stability" --- if not legitimacy --- lay in an arrangement in which he and his circle could be assured that they would not face trouble from a President, Parliament, or judiciary.
Ahmadinejad, provided he accepts that he has been curbed, will be able to serve out the last year of his term in this non-drama. He will not be impeached, and he may not face questioning in the new Parliament. An EA correspondent notes that 58 of the 79 MPs who signed the petition to interrogate the President will not be in the new Parliament --- 27 did not run or were disqualified, while 31 lost their contests. Only ten of the 79 have won so far, with 10 more awaiting their fate.
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