Sham Majlis elections – 14
NCRI – Despite vote riggings and attempts to tamper with ballot boxes, Mohammad Reza Faker with 211,624 won the elections as the front running in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the state-run news agency Mehr reported on Monday.
Hassan Movahedian, Mashhad's governor, announced the number of eligible voters to be 1,800,000. The first winner of the Majlis election from Mashhad won his seat only with 11.5 percent of the votes.
This comes at the time when the actual figures of those who are eligible to vote have been set by the mullahs in a way to show a high turn-out. However, that figure is lower than the actual number of those eligible to vote.
Mostafa Poormohammadi, Interior Minister, announced that more than 60 percent of the voters turned up for the election. According to official counts, the leading winners in the elections in major cities such as Tehran, Mashhad and Tabriz, won their seats with only 10 percent of the votes. The fact is that the Iranian people have widely boycotted the Majlis elections.
According to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) count of 25,000 polling stations across the country, more than 95 percent of the people boycotted mullahs' sham election.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 18, 2008
