0620 MP: The outcome of Friday's Parliamentary elections, beyond the surface declaration that 225 candidates have been elected in the first round to the 290-member Majlis, is still muddled. There is still confusion about the voter turnout, let alone the political blocs that will emerge when the new Parliament finally meets in May.
Meanwhile, there is the question of whether President Ahmadinejad --- a "lame duck", in my opinion --- faces immediate trouble in the outgoing Majlis. Hossein Sobhaninia, a member of the Board of the Parliament, has said that while there is not a definite time for the President's interrogation, he will be questioned by 14 March.
However, former Minister of Health Kamran Bagheri Lankarani --- once a favourite of Ahmadinejad, who called him "Peach” --- tried to draw a line against this. Holding a press conference as the spokesman of the Islamic Constancy/Resistance Front, he said, "The next parliament should change its politicial attitude and approach toward the Government. In our view, the interrogation of the President was just propaganda, as many people tried to manoeuvre before the election. Fortunately, we saw that it did not affect people in any way."
The President also might see hope in the statement from one of his biggest critics, MP Ahmad Tavakoli, who did not mention impeachment in his latest interview. Instead, he focused on the likely make-up of the new Parliament --- the Resistance Front, which has a tendency toward Ahmadinejad"; principlists who criticise government, "of whom I am one"; and the "traditional principlists" of the Unity Front.
Tavakoli also projected three main candidates for the next Speaker of Parliament --- the current Speaker, Ali Larijani; former Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel; and cleric Morteza Agha Tehrani, who headed the Unity Front's list in Tehran and, like Haddad Adel, was also on the list of the Constancy/Resistance Front.
Even though I think there is less chance for Agha Tehrani.Posted via email from lissping
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