The Guardian Council has rejected the qualifications of "56 percent" of candidates for the 11th Parliament elections.

The qualifications of about 56% of candidates for the 11th Parliament elections, including a number of prominent political figures and eight current representatives from Tehran, were not confirmed.

The names of the candidates for the parliamentary elections were announced on Wednesday, February 13, and Jamal Araf, the head of the country's election headquarters, announced that 7,148 people have been certified for 290 parliamentary seats.

The approval of this number of candidates comes at a time when 16,145 people had applied for the 11th parliamentary elections, and thus, about 56% of their qualifications were rejected.

In the 10th Majlis elections, 12,123 candidates were nominated, of which 5,944 were confirmed as qualified, indicating that the qualifications of about 51% of the candidates were rejected.

According to the ISNA news agency, Ali Motahari, Mahmoud Sadeghi, Elias Hazrati, Gholamreza Heidari, Fatemeh Saeedi, Behrouz Nemati, Tayyebeh Siavashi, and Alireza Rahimi are on the list of disqualified individuals.

The Reformists' Supreme Policy Council had previously announced that it would not submit a list for the 11th Majlis elections in the Tehran constituency.

The council announced the disqualification of 90 percent of its candidates in the parliamentary elections and announced that if this trend continues, they will not have candidates for 230 of the 290 parliamentary seats.

This is while Ahmad Jannati, the secretary of the Guardian Council, has claimed that "contrary to some false statements, the upcoming elections are fully competitive and representatives of all factions are present in the elections."

The deputy political director of the Revolutionary Guards also said on Wednesday that "the enemy, the counter-revolutionaries, and the Westerners are striving to form a non-revolutionary parliament."

Yadollah Javani announced that the Revolutionary Guard Corps will not be indifferent to this issue and will work to "form a strong and revolutionary parliament."

On February 6, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, warned critics of the Guardian Council that attacking the council would be "the most wrong thing to do."

After the November protests, a large group of protesters announced that they would boycott the parliamentary elections. Many political groups abroad have also boycotted the elections.

Narges Mohammadi, a imprisoned human rights activist, has also called on people not to go to the polls in the elections for the Islamic Consultative Assembly and the mid-term Assembly of Experts and to boycott the elections.

Mohammad Reza Bahonar, a prominent figure among the conservatives, said that in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the conservatives have "no significant rivals" and that "if we don't lose to our weaknesses," these elections are "the playing field for the conservatives."

Some fundamentalist groups have announced their electoral list and named Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as the possible speaker of the future parliament.

However, the Perseverance Front group, which is the hardline faction of the fundamentalists, has published a list of 60 of its initial candidates for Tehran, which does not include Mr. Qalibaf's name.

Source: Radio Farda