TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Iran�s Interior Ministry spokesman announced that the country�s run-off parliamentary elections will be held on April 29 across 21 provinces where candidates failed to earn enough votes in the February polls.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday, Hossein-Ali Amiri said the Interior Ministry is determined to hold the upcoming run-off votes with the same qualities of the February elections.

The run-off elections will be held in 21 provinces for 69 remaining seats in the parliament, he noted, adding that twice the number of the seats, namely 138 candidates, will be running in the polls.

According to the spokesman, the Interior Ministry and the Guardian Council will have finished handling everything in relation to the parliamentary elections before the new legislature holds its first meeting on May 27.

Countrywide parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections were held in Iran on February 26.

More than 60 percent of some 55 million eligible voters cast their ballots at around 53,000 polling stations across the country.

There are 290 seats in the Iranian parliament, elected by direct vote of people in nationwide election for four years.

By Tasnim News Agency