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Elections In Iran

EDM number 1713 in 1997-98, proposed by Ken Livingstone on 28/10/1998.

That this House notes that the elections to Iran's Assembly of Experts have resulted in over 70 per cent. of the seats being won by candidates of the Association of Militant Clerics and their allies but that, as all candidates had first to be approved by a supervisory board before they were allowed to stand and during that process almost all candidates associated with Iran's moderate president Mohammed Khatami were barred from standing, these elections have been exposed as an undemocratic farce with voters registering their opposition to the vetting of candidates by refusing to vote; and therefore calls on the Prime Minister to protest to the Iranian government and point out that such practices are unacceptable in any modern democracy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ken Livingstone28/10/1998Brent EastLabourProposed
Alan Simpson29/10/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Audrey Wise29/10/1998PrestonLabourSigned
Evan Harris02/11/1998Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer02/11/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Nigel Jones03/11/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ashok Kumar03/11/1998Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Michael Connarty03/11/1998Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Bill Michie04/11/1998Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Robert Wareing04/11/1998Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Tony Benn04/11/1998ChesterfieldLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/11/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner04/11/1998BolsoverLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/11/1998Luton NorthLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt09/11/1998Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis10/11/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard11/11/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Lynne Jones12/11/1998Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Andrew George12/11/1998St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed16/11/1998South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned

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