Iranian Moderate Candidates Win Big
By Good News Network Wednesday, March 01, 2000
6000 citizens campaign for 290 parliament seats!
In
February, 2000 elections, moderate candidates supporting cultural,
social and political reforms won substantial gains in the legislature:
170 seats with another 65 to be decided in run-offs.
The election results are seen as a national endorsement of President
Khatami's reform programs. The hard-liners won 44 seats, losing control
of the parliament for the first time since 1979, when the Muslim clergy
came to power. Top officials from Germany and Italy immediately
schedualed visits to Iran, in a move to reach out to reformists.
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