The New Yorker
Iran's Technicolor Election
By Robin Wright
My piece for The New Yorker on Iran's Technicolor Election. To help voters choose among 6,000 candidates in a (yes, only!) eight-day campaign, new coalitions have selected colors: Turquoise for the Universal Coalition of Reformers. Bright yellow for Grand Coalition of Principlists. Indigo for conservatives. Pity the color blind voter! Lots at stake in this poll, which will pick a new parliament as well as an Assembly of Elections, a rough equivalent of the College of Cardinals, as it selects the Supreme Leader, the ultimate authority in Iran.
Read on...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/irans-technicolor-elections?intcid=mod-latest
By Robin Wright
My piece for The New Yorker on Iran's Technicolor Election. To help voters choose among 6,000 candidates in a (yes, only!) eight-day campaign, new coalitions have selected colors: Turquoise for the Universal Coalition of Reformers. Bright yellow for Grand Coalition of Principlists. Indigo for conservatives. Pity the color blind voter! Lots at stake in this poll, which will pick a new parliament as well as an Assembly of Elections, a rough equivalent of the College of Cardinals, as it selects the Supreme Leader, the ultimate authority in Iran.
Read on...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/irans-technicolor-elections?intcid=mod-latest
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