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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Cairo
17 March 2008
According to partial results, conservatives have won most of the seats in Iran's parliamentary election. But the conservative bloc1 is divided, and hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could find himself facing more resistance to some of his policies from rivals within the conservative camp. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from our Middle East bureau in Cairo.
With most of the results in, the Interior Ministry2 indicated that conservative factions4 will retain the roughly three quarters majority they held in the last parliament. But rivalries5 have emerged between two conservative factions.
The president's hardline allies will likely still hold the largest single bloc in the 290-seat Parliament, but a sizable number of seats was won by another conservative group, led by critics of the president.
Journalist Kassam Kasir oversees6 foreign political coverage7 for Al-Arab newspaper in Qatar, and has been paying close attention to the Iranian political scene.
Kasir calls the results "a message from the Iranian people to [President ] Ahmadinejad," showing disapproval8 of his policies, especially regarding the economy. He said the outcome is likely to affect next year's presidential election.
A number of Mr. Ahmadinejad's conservative rivals won seats in parliament, including Ali Larijani, who resigned as chief nuclear negotiator last year, after differing with the president over his approach to dealing9 with the West on the nuclear issue. It is possible that he or one of Mr. Ahmadinejad's other rivals could use their positions in Parliament as a springboard to run for president next year.
Meanwhile, spokesmen for reformist groups said they had won a slight increase in seats over the last parliament, even though most of their candidates were not allowed to run. Pre-election vetting10 by the cleric-led Guardian11 Council and the Interior Ministry disqualified hundreds of candidates, including the most prominent reformists.
The complicated electoral system makes it hard to say exactly how many seats have been won by each faction3, since some candidates were backed by more than one group, and others were listed as independents, with their political affiliations12 still unclear.
A number of seats have yet to be determined13, and a second round of voting will be held in races where no candidate won at least 25 percent.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry angrily denounced a European Union statement calling the election "neither fair nor free" because of the candidate disqualifications.
Slovenia, which holds the rotating EU presidency14, on Sunday said Iranians were unable to choose from a full range of political views, and called the barring of reformist candidates "a clear violation15 of international norms."
The Iranian foreign ministry condemned16 the EU statement as "hasty" and "unacceptable."
The United States has called the election "cooked," meaning rigged.
The Interior Ministry said around 60 percent of registered voters went to the polls, more than the last election. Government officials called the turnout "glorious" and categorized it as a victory over Iran's critics.
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n.数据检查[核对,核实]v.审查(某人过去的记录、资格等)( vet的现在分词 );调查;检查;诊疗 | |
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