I had some emails asking about AoE elections. I am not into politics and I don't know that much about it but I will try to write my opinions.

At Friday, we had two major elections. I have wrote about it some weeks ago (Pressure, Experts and brave people). The government announced that participation in Tehran was 47%. Have in mind that we had 3 elections on Friday: Councils, Assembly of Experts and mid-course(?) Parliament.

I did not participated because I did not had any appropriate candidate. Government had said that the results will be announced the next night but they have not announced it yet (3 days after the desired day). Some people and some reformist candidates are protesting against cause they believe the government is going to cheat.

In the AoE the results are not with Ahmadinejads group. Hashemi Rafsanjani is first and the pro-Ahmadinejad candidate is 6th (I think the first 15 will be in the AoE from Tehran). Right know the first candidate has 1'500'000 votes and this is from a city with 10'000'000 of population.

The main point about this elections was if our leader dies, one of these people are going to be the next leader so it was a great competition for those old people. For me, the elections was not important at all because I am sure in their next meeting -as always- they are going to say we have the best leader and this will happen each year. They never argue for peoples rights, they never criticize the leader cause they are all the same.