Large voter turnout in Iran favors president; With most of the results in by press time, reformists were expected to win 60 percent of the 290 seats.(World)(Parliamentary Poll)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: February 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Voters in Iran have delivered a blow to the powerful grip of conservative clerics, by giving decisive control of parliament to reformist candidates for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Reformers say the large, record turnout - 80 percent of eligible voters, including a large number of women and youths - favored them.

The vote on Friday was largely seen as a referendum on the liberalizing agenda of President Mohamad Khatami, who won a landslide victory in 1997. But Mr. Khatami's reformist agenda had been checked by right-wing control of the parliament, the ...

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