[lbo-talk] 2005 Presidential Elections in Iran (was On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On 8/18/06, uvj at vsnl.com <uvj at vsnl.com> wrote:
>> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>>
>> > > Ahmadinejad got only 19.50% of the total votes polled in the
>> > first
>> > > round in last year's elections in Iran. A week later in the
>> > second
>> > > round, his vote share went upto 62%. It's not clear how much he
>> > > owed his second round vote to rigging and intimidation by the
>> > clergy.
>>
>> > Or disgust for neo-liberal economics ?
>> > Or anger at the west that was pressuring Iran already ?
>>
>> Ahmadinejad's votes went up from 19.5% to 62% _in one week_
>> between two rounds. What happened in that week that produced so
>> much disgust or anger to more than triple his share of votes?

As Yoshie mentioned this is what happens when you have a number of  
candidates one week and 2 only the week after.

France in 2002 was the same: Chirac with a ridiculous score the first  
week (but still  first of a good dozen) and more than 80 the week  
later (because the second was Le Pen).

Jean-Christophe