Tehran, YJC. Mohammad Nabi Habibi has said that as Rouhani has stressed forming a cross-factional administration with moderate members, he must take care in choosing Reformists.
Secretary
General of the Islamic Coalition Party said in an interview "Mr. Rouhani has
said many times that he will form a cross-factional administration and will use
moderate Principalist and Reformist figures in the Administration of Foresight
and Hope. The President-elect must be careful in choosing Reformists.”
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Habibi said, commenting on the Principalist’s defeat, that the main reason for the
loss has been the multiplicity of Principalist candidates.
He added
"The Islamic Coalition had announced 8 months before that it would introduce a
candidate for the presidentials, but if there were a coalition to reach union
and the Principalists made consensus on someone else our candidate would
resign. The Coalition finally kept its word.”
"If
the other Principalists were in agreement with each other there would have been
no multiplicity of candidates, we would not have been experiencing what has
happened now,” he asserted.
Habibi
then said "If Rouhani acts as he promised, good things will happen. He has
asserted in his campaigns many times that he will form a cross-factional
administration and will use moderate Principalist and Reformist figures in the
Foresight and Hope Administration.”
He further
said "Using Reformists in the future administration needs care and the President-elect
must take care that the Reformists he is going to use must have proved their
adherence to the Guardianship of the Jurist and the Constitution in practice.”