| Front of Prudence and Development of Islamic Iran | |||||
| Native Name: | جبهه تدبیر و توسعه ایران اسلامی | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | fa | ||||
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| General Secretary: | Rahman Mokhatab[1] | ||||
| Spokesperson: | Ahmad Shareef[2] | ||||
| Leader1 Title: | Head of Central Council | ||||
| Leader1 Name: | Ahmad Shareef | ||||
| Ideology: | Moderation Islamic democracy Social justice Civil societarianism | ||||
| Seats1 Title: | 10th Majlis | ||||
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| Country: | Iran | ||||
Front of Prudence and Development of Islamic Iran (Persian: جبهه تدبیر و توسعه ایران اسلامی) is the alliance of five Iranian minor political groups that issued electoral list for the 2016 legislative elections.
The group which was established by Rouhani 2013 presidential campaigners, and support the Government of Hassan Rouhani,[1] but did not ally with the List of Hope –the coalition including the president's party, Moderation and Development Party– in the 2016 elections. They initially intended to ally with the Reformists Front.[3] [4]
Groups involving this front include:[3]
The group had 14 exclusive candidates, all losing the election, and the rest of 16 candidates in the list was derived from Hope and People's Voice lists.Their top voted exclusive candidate was actor Mahmoud Azizi, who was placed 77th receiving only 19,133 votes out of 3,440,968.
| Candidate[5] | Original list | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohammad Reza Aref | List of Hope | ||
| 2 | Ali Motahari | People's Voice | ||
| 3 | Mostafa Kavakebian | List of Hope | ||
| 4 | Elias Hazrati | List of Hope | ||
| 5 | Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini | People's Voice | ||
| 6 | Mohammad-Ali Vakili | List of Hope | ||
| 7 | Hassan Babaei | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 8 | Mohammad-Taha Abdekhodaei | People's Voice | ||
| 9 | Hamid-Reza Seyfi | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 10 | Kazem Jalali | List of Hope | ||
| 11 | Hassan Ghafourifard | People's Voice | ||
| 12 | Mahmoud Azizi | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 13 | Alireza Mahjoub | List of Hope | ||
| 14 | Hassan Zamani | People's Voice | ||
| 15 | Ali Nobakht | List of Hope | ||
| 16 | Behrouz Nemati | List of Hope | ||
| 17 | Ali Taheri | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 18 | Hassan Yaseri | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 19 | Farshid Tahmassebi | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 20 | Gholamreza Mohammadnejad | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 21 | Ghassem Mohammad-Amini | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 22 | Sakineh Jafarifar | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 23 | Fatemeh Hosseini | List of Hope | ||
| 24 | Seyyed Morteza Hosseini | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 25 | Vahid Shariatmadari | People's Voice | ||
| 26 | Manijeh Nasrollahzadeh | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 27 | Mohammad-Reza Alaei | People's Voice | ||
| 28 | Mojtaba Miri | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 29 | Javad Karimzadegan | Exclusive candidate | ||
| 30 | Majid Asgharzadeh | Exclusive candidate | ||
According to the front's spokesperson, 79 of the candidates winning a seat in the first round were supported by the group,[2] however most of them were included in the election's three major lists List of Hope, Principlists Grand Coalition and People's Voice. 11 candidates won seats while being supported by the group and not listed by any of the big three lists.[5] [6] Among them, four were incumbent and two were former members of the parliament.
| MP | Representing counties | Leaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Moradi | Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Abumusa, Hajjiabad, Khamir | Independent | Former governor of Bandar Abbas County | |
| Mohammad-Ebrahim Rezaei | Khomein | Principlist | Incumbent MP | |
| Ezzatollah Yousefian-Molla | Amol | Principlist | Incumbent MP | |
| Abdolghafour Irannejad | Chabahar, Nikshahr | Independent | Former MP (6th–7th terms) | |
| Seyyed Morteza Khatami | Mahneshan, Ijrud | Independent | ||
| Jalil Mokhtar | Abadan | Independent | ||
| Hadi Shoushtari | Ghuchan, Faruj | Reformist | Incumbent MP | |
| Abdolreza Azizi | Shirvan | Independent | Incumbent MP | |
| Mohammad-Reza Amir-Hassankhani | Boshruyeh, Ferdows, Tabas, Sarayan | Principlist | Former MP (7th term) | |
| Mohammad Khaledi | Lordegan, Ferdows, Tabas, Sarayan | Reformist | ||
| Sakineh Almasi | Kangan, Jam, Tabas, Dayyer | Independent |