Ali Larijani paid a visit to the Election Headquarters in the Ministry of Interior Affairs Sunday along with Mr. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli and responded to some critical questions about the Parliament elections.
Larijani also extended his accolade to ‘a well-planned job’ by all authorities including the Minister of the Interior Affairs who ‘brought to the country a valuable national capital;’ “the media also did a good job in covering the elections across the country and provide the public with updated information; the overall product of these efforts was a healthy election where few, if any, cases of inconveniences were reported to happen,” he told the press.
Larijani refused to answer questions by some reporters who constantly asked him about the political failure of the Principlists in both Parliament and Assembly of Experts elections and the possibility of winning the position of Parliament speaker in the future Parliament; “I am not a soothsayer to make prophecy about all this stuff. However, people played a great scene where participation was the major theme; this is very important and valuable and should not be a source of new struggles and discord, but should be an opportunity for coordination and harmony for different political groups and effective forces of the country,” he demanded.
About the failure of the Principlist clerical list in the Assembly of Experts elections especially in Tehran, Larijani believed that people’s decision on preferring different tastes and worldviews should be respected. The very nature of changing the political forces is salubrious feature of elections and will definitely benefit the system, Mr. Larijani’s response came to the reporters.
“The media should see elections as a capital for future developments which would bring unity and solidarity to society,” Mr. Larijani said. On the number of Principlist representatives in the 10th Parliament, Larijani also refused to answer on the grounds that no precise analysis of the Parliament political composition had come out yet. “I think that society displayed political maturity which was evident among the candidates as well who came to this general conclusion that the major issue of the country is economic issue, where we need all different forces to sit and focus on this issue; this however should not turn into a factionalism and different parties should not wage efforts to neutralize the efforts of others to solve problems,” he emphasized.
On the question of poor record of the 9th Parliament in addressing pressing issues of the country, which brought the debacle of the Principlist majority, Larijani believed that in all Parliament elections, about two third of the seats had seen different representatives; on the main mission of the future Parliament, he suggested that the major issues should be on the focus of the Parliament and finding effective and viable solutions should be a criteria to converge all efforts.
He believed that Resistance Economy should provide the basis for Parliament action. “This is the solution for country and will improve hopes as well as exports; the Sixth Development Plan is a major issue for the next Parliament, and the 9th flickering Parliament would definitely balk at the idea of such a feat,” he concluded.
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