Ahmad Tavakkoli

Ahmad Tavakkoli احمد توکلی
Minister of Labour
In office 12 November 1981 – 1 November 1985
President	Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi
Succeeded by	Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh
Head of Relief Foundation
In office 19 December 1979 – 12 November 1981
Preceded by	Habibollah Asgaroladi
Succeeded by	Mehdi Karoubi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 May 2004
Constituency	Tehran
In office 4 May 1980 – 12 November 1981
Constituency	Behshahr
Personal details
Born	March 1951 (age 65) Behshahr, Iran
Political party	Islamic Coalition Party
Residence	Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Religion	Twelver Shi'a Islam
Website	Official website

Ahmad Tavakkoli (Persian: احمد توکلی‎‎) (born 1951) is outgoing conservative representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament and the former director of Majlis Research Center.

Career

Tavakkoli was the minister of labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran (running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami).^[1]

Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the ministry of labour. He founded Resalat, a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the UK, where he received his PhD.

Views and personal life

Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalist economy, and backs the government's role in controlling the economy. He is a cousin of the Larijani brothers, including Ali Larijani and Mohammad Javad Larijani.

Tavakkoli is also one of the fierce critics of the President Ahmadinejad.^[2] On 2 March 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized President for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches.^[3]

Electoral history

Year	Election	Votes	%	Rank	Notes
1980[lower-alpha 1]	Parliament	28,850	50.2	1st	Won[4]
1993	President	3,972,201	24.3	2nd	Lost
2000[lower-alpha 2]	Parliament	382,867	13.06	51st	Lost[5]
2001	President	4,393,544	15.6	2nd	Lost
2004[lower-alpha 2]	Parliament	776,979	39.40	2nd	Won[6]
2008[lower-alpha 2]	Parliament	568,459	32.65	4th	Won[7]
2012[lower-alpha 2]	Parliament Round 1	481,012	22.69	7th	Went to Round 2[8]
	Parliament Round 2	404,595	35.91	3rd	Won[9]
2016[lower-alpha 2]	Parliament	862,723	26.56	34th	Lost[10]

1. Behshahr
2. Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr

References

1. Muir, Jim (1 June 2001). "Iran election: People and policies". BBC (Tehran). Retrieved 28 June 2013.
2. Sohrabi, Naghmeh (July 2011). "The Power Struggle in Iran: A Centrist Comeback?" (PDF). Middle East Brief (53).
3. "Iran gets some diplomatic heat over opposition leader arrests". Press Roundup 3 February 2011. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
4. "Getting to Know the Representatives in the Majles" (PDF), Iranian Parliament (The Iran Social Science Data Portal), p. 39
5. آگهی نتیجه انتخابات ششمین دوره مجلس شورای اسلامی در حوزه انتخابیه تهران، ری، شمیرانات و اسلامشهر (in Persian), archived from the original on 9 June 2011
6. "آراء نهايي انتخابات مجلس هفتم در حوزه تهران اعلام شد از مجموع 3438 صندوق 1971748 برگ راي به دست آمد", Iranian Students' News Agency (in Persian), 27 February 2004, retrieved 10 February 2016
7. "نتيجه قطعي انتخابات تهران اعلام شد", Fars News Agency (in Persian), 17 March 2008, retrieved 10 February 2016
8. "۵۲۷ کاندیدای تهران در انتخابات ۱۲ اسفند چقدر رای آوردند؟", Khabaronline (in Persian), 18 March 2012, retrieved 10 February 2016
9. نتایج نهایی و رسمی مرحله دوم انتخابات تهران + گرایش سیاسی. Asr Iran (in Persian). 16 May 2012. 212705. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
10. "ریز آمار نتایج 1021 کاندیدای نمایندگی مجلس در تهران + فیلم مرور روز انتخابات", Iranian Students' News Agency (in Persian), 27 February 2016, retrieved 27 February 2016

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