TEHRAN -- Names of candidates of all provinces across the country whose qualifications have been approved by the Guardian Council to run for the next month’s parliamentary elections were announced on Friday.

The GC had until February 22 to study the rejected candidates’ petitions.
---------------------- NCP and reformist coalition not to release a common list
Some 150 hopefuls from the reformist coalition who had registered to stand for Majlis elections from the Tehran constituency, 44 of which were qualified by the Interior Ministry’s executive bodies, but this number decreased to 7 during vetting process by supervisory committees, a former reformist MP told the Mehr News Agency on Friday.
The coalition will not release a 30-candidate slate for Tehran because enough reformist candidates have not endorsed to complete the list, Ali Tajernia said.
Asked about the impacts of four stages of screening for creating a competitive election atmosphere, he said hopefuls qualified during the four stages either do not have a good chance of being elected or are close to the National Confidence Party led by Mahdi Karrubi.
Asked if they will form a coalition with the NCP to release a united list, Tajernia said the NCP has refused to form a coalition with the other reformist groups.
--------------- Reformist coalition seeks ways to complete its list
Head of the reformist coalition Abdolvahed Musavi-Lari told Mehr on Friday that his faction has not yet decided how to contest the elections on March 14.
Vetting bodies were expected to prepare the ground for holding a competitive election in which candidates from all political persuasions could run, Musavi-Lari noted.
To complete the Tehran slate, the reformist coalition is prepared to support candidates who agree with the coalition’s platform, the former interior minister pointed out.
Although reformists have basically indented to contest the vote, but they would wait and see what the final result of vetting process would be, he said before the Guardian Council released the names of approved candidates on Friday.
“We will encourage people to massively turn out in the elections,” he said.
-----------------------------World is focusing on Iran’s polls
Iran’s former security chief Ali Larijani has said the world is focusing on the upcoming Majlis elections to see how people will turn out in the poll, Press TV reported on Thursday.
Larijani, a key parliamentary candidate from the United Fundamentalist Group, said the front is responsible to not only revive the ideals and values of late Imam Khomeini, but is also obligated to follow the guidelines of the Supreme Leader by acting in a more unified manner.
People’s turnout in all elections, which has always been unprecedented, symbolizes democracy in Iran, he said in a meeting with a group of clerics in Qom.
The former chief nuclear negotiator called the upcoming parliamentary election “very sensitive”, saying the West is trying to prove that its pressure and sanctions against Iran have been effective.
The political message of the March 14 election is very crucial and it is linked to the dignity of nation, he stressed.
---------------------------- Reformists should run even with least number of candidates
The reformist MP Soheila Jelodarzadeh said on Thursday that in order to preserve the Islamic Revolution’s principals, pro-reform movements should put aside disagreements and actively challenge the elections “even as a minority”.
Delivering a speech at a conference held by the NCP about the importance of women’s role in the country’s political affairs, she said women have a pivotal role in the country’s development and should act more seriously in this regard.
---------------Legal ways of campaigning not clear
At the present time, there are some legal ambiguities in election law which should be resolved, Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad-Hossein Musapur Thursday said in northern city of Sari.
Most of the ambiguities are concerned with the legal ways of campaigning by the parliamentary hopefuls, he explained.
Parliament has recently passed a law which prohibits the candidates from including their names and pictures in the posters or banners in election campaigning.
They are just allowed to print their pictures in the brochures, leaflets, cards and their biographies.