7Berkeh: Jamshid Jafarpour succeeded in keeping his seat in the 10th Islamic Parliament. In a rather unexpected victory in the parliamentary elections on February 26, 2016, he was able to get the votes of more than 38 thoudand people in the electorate of Larestan, Khonj and Gerash, and defeat his opponents with a significant margin.
Jafarpour is from Lar. The first and second runner-ups in the elections are also from Lar: As’ad Zahedi got nearly 17 thousand votes, and Yousef Mohebbi got 13 thousand votes.
The two Gerashi candidates, whose competition became unnecessarily controversial, came in forth and fifth. Hosein Ali Hoseinshiri beat his opponent Mirza Khalil Bahmani with a considerable margin in Gerash alone. But this was only a local victory, meaningful only to their supporters. Nearly all the voters in Gerash believed that these two candidates should have striken a coalition agreement to have a chance in the elections. This did not happen, and Jafarpour, a conservative whose political views are not in line with Mr. Rouhani’s government and whose activities are under constant criticism from his opponents even in Lar, got re-elected for the 10th Parliament.
Some words and expressions in this news story:
the parliamentary elections: انتخابات مجلس
vote: رای
electorate: حوزه انتخابیه
The first and second runner-ups: نفرات دوم و سوم مسابقه
Conservative: محافظهکار
