Iranians turn their backs on legislative and power

Never since the advent of the Islamic Republic in 1979 have so few Iranians moved to vote in a national election. Participation in legislative elections on Friday reached only 42.57%, according to the Interior Ministry, the lowest rate in the electoral history of revolutionary Iran. In the last legislative elections in 2016, the participation was 62%. In the capital, Tehran, only one in four residents filed a ballot in the ballot box (26.2%). These figures mark the deep crisis of confidence between the leaders and the Iranian people. This is a disavowal for the supreme leader and number one of the regime, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had made the vote " an obligation ".

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