Iranian Resistance: PMOI/MEK Elects New Secretary General

On Wednesday, September 6, 2017-- In a congress chaired by Ms. Zohreh Akhyani, the Secretary General since 2011.The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI/MEK, (the Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) held its annual Congress simultaneously in Tirana and five other countries. On the PMOI/MEK’s 52nd anniversary, the Congress elected Ms. Zahra Merrikhi as its new Secretary General.

Election process in PMOI/MEK

According to the PMOI/MEK’s regulations, the Secretary General is elected to a renewable term of two years. The election is held in three stages. In the first stage, members of the PMOI/MEK Central Council, and in the second the organization’s officials and cadres in different departments, cast their votes in secret ballots. In the third stage, at the PMOI/MEK Congress, all members vote by raising their hands.

In the first stage, on August 20, 2017, Ms. Merrikhi was elected from among 12 candidates by a majority of the Central Council members. The four leading candidates were put on the ballot for the second phase, which was held on September 3, 2017. Ms. Merrikhi received a majority of the votes cast in ten different PMOI/MEK centers. In the final stage, during the PMOI/MEK Congress, Ms. Merrikhi was unanimously elected Secretary General.
Previously, Ms. Merrikhi was coordinator for the offices of Ms. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), and Vice-President of the PMOI/MEK’s Central Council.
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