Iran reformists question counting in election

TEHRAN-[[[[Staunch opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad complained on Monday about vote counting in Iran's parliamentary election, in which conservatives have retained their grip on the assembly, a news agency reported.Full results from Friday's vote have yet to be announced, but the Interior Ministry said conservatives who call themselves "principlist" for their loyalty to the Islamic Republic's values had 74 percent of seats decided so far.Parliament has 290 seats."We have complaints about the method of counting votes," the spokesman of the reformist National Trust party, Esmail Gerami-Moghaddam, told Iran's ISNA news agency."We want the Interior Ministry to announce the result of vote counting at each station through their Web site," he said.Mohammad Hossein Mousapour, deputy head of the ministry's election headquarters, told a news conference the parliament election had been "unique and unprecedented regarding not having voting irregularities".]]]]Conservatives will again dominate the assembly. But Ahmadinejad may not get an easy ride because the camp is broad and includes political rivals who may use parliament as a springboard to launch into next year's presidential race."The result of parliamentary election does not mean the government was victorious," said Amir Ali Amiri, secretary for the Inclusive Coalition, a conservative group backed by Ahmadinejad's rivals, Iran's ISNA news agency reported."Conservative critics of the government will have a majority in the next parliament," Amiri said.
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