More than 60 million Iranians are electing this Friday their 290 deputies and the 88 members of an important Assembly, called experts, of clerics who will be responsible for appointing the future supreme guide, the central figure of the Islamic Republic.
But participation should be even lower than during the last legislative and presidential elections, the Iranians being without illusions about the reform capacities of a system which faces a test of legitimacy there.
Experts expect a record abstention, probably above 50%, especially in Tehran, the capital, where only 26% of voters voted in the last legislative elections of 2020.
Since then, the capital has been one of the epicenters of a protest movement unprecedented in its scale, triggered in September 2022 by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman arrested by the police for non-compliance with the country's strict dress code. .
By bloodily repressing, particularly in universities, one of the main…
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