Iranian presidential election race: Poll shows Parliament speaker Ghalibaf in lead among potential candidates
File photo of Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
A recent opinion poll has shown that Iranian Parliament SpeakerMohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is in the lead among potential presidential candidates. The poll by theShenaakht Analytical Center was conducted between June 10-13, the news agency TASS reported on Friday (June 14). As many as 1,000 respondents were surveyed bythe centre.
The poll showed that around28.7 per cent of respondents were ready to vote forGhalibaf, around 20 per cent supported former Supreme National Security Council secretarySaeed Jalili, and13.4 per cent of the respondents favoured former Iranian health ministerMasoud Pezeshkian.
29% of respondents will not vote: Poll
The opinion poll also revealed that about 26 per cent of respondents were undecided about who would they vote for. Around53.6 per cent of the respondents said they would definitely vote in the upcoming presidential election while17.4 per cent have not yet decided, and 29 per cent of the respondents said they would not take part in the election.
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The election will be held two weeks from now to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
'New president should solve problems for people'
Iranians seemed a bit optimistic about the upcoming presidential election. Speaking to the news agency Reuters, a man from Tehran said, "Probably, if meritocracy comes and the president looks at the international arena in an open manner based on wise and dignified interaction, good things will happen."
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Another man told Reuters, "MrJalili, MrQalibaf, they are all good, I am only asking that the person who is elected to office should be able to solve the problems for the people."
"We only have acute problems in our economic conditions. Subsidies should be distributed equally among the people so that they all grow together," the man added.
(With inputs from agencies)