Friends of Hashemi

Friends of Hashemi
PresidentAli Jamali
Founded2020
Seats won
7 / 290

Friends of Hashemi (Persian: یاران هاشمی, romanized: Yaran-e Hashemi, referring to supporters of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)[1] was an electoral list for the 2020 Iranian legislative election, which was announced by the Executives of Construction Party and subsequently endorsed by the Moderation and Development Party.

In May 2019, the Executives of Construction Party released a statement declaring its intent to participate in the election without any preconditions, a position regarded in minority among the reformist camp.[2] Although the leading members of the party were unable to run as a result of vast disqualifications by the Guardian Council,[3] the party declared that they would present a list of 12 candidates for the 30 seats in the biggest constituency, Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr.[4] However, they finally listed candidates for all 30 seats.[3] Their top candidate was Majid Ansari,[4] who was also the leading candidate on the other reformist list, the Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties.[5]

According to Reuters, their list also includes candidates from "some low-key moderate parties".[3]

  1. ^ "Who will be next speaker?", Tehran Times, 17 February 2020, retrieved 14 February 2020
  2. ^ Faghihi, Rohollah (6 February 2020), "How Iranian hard-liners helped Reformists ahead of elections", Al-Monitor, retrieved 25 February 2020
  3. ^ a b c Hafezi, Parisa (17 February 2020), Maclean, William (ed.), "Factbox: Choices curtailed - Iran's parliamentary election", Reuters, retrieved 17 February 2020
  4. ^ a b Azizi, Arash (17 February 2020), "Factbox: Iran's 2020 parliamentary elections", Atlantic Council, retrieved 14 February 2020
  5. ^ Reformists Issue List of Parliamentary Candidates, Financial Tribune, 15 February 2020, retrieved 15 February 2020