Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 22 / Trend S. Isayev, T.Jafarov/
"It's undesirable to hold elections in Iran only within one fraction," the Chairman of the Advisory Council of Iran, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said, Aftab News reported.
Rafsanjani added that having a number of parties at the elections will serve the prosperity of the country's political society.
"The elections must be free, fair and without any party games," Rafsanjani noted.
Parliamentary elections in Iran are held every four years. The next, ninth parliamentary elections will be held on March 12, 2012. The Iranian parliament has 290 members, but discusses the issue of increasing the number of members by ten people in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
According to Iranian media, there are 260 political parties in Iran, some of which operate as various societies, movements and other structures. Of them, only 60 percent operates.
Iran's political spectrum actually consists of three camps - the reformers, conservatives and moderate supporters of both conservative and reformist wing of the ruling Iranian clergy. The camp of reformers includes 47 parties, conservatives - 35, moderate - 25.
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