TEHRAN Elections will be held in Britain on June 7. Some analysts believe that people's low participation in the elections would be unprecedented among all the elections held in Britain since the end of World War I.

With regards to the same facts, the Parliament reporter of London-based ****Daily Telegraph**** Michael Kollenback said in an interview that during the past few weeks, some theories have been presented, stating that the participation of people in the elections would be low. Of course, the election was expected to be held in May, but the spread of foot and mouth disease in Britain caused postponement of the time for sponsoring the elections and there seems to be no interesting and new thing for people in these electoral campaigns.

He said that the other reason behind people's low participation in the elections was the fact that people do not trust the politicians and that the prime minister was also reluctant to attend Parliament sessions. In the past the prime minister used to attend Parliament twice a week to answer questions, but now the current prime minister does it just once a week and all of these are signs of a kind of division among different ranks and all add to the cause for people's low participation in the elections.

When asked why is it that in a letter to the ****Daily Telegraph**** some of the businessmen have called it a disaster for the future of Britain if Labour Party should come out victorious in the elections, Kollenback said that shows the fact that they have been damaged by the policies of the Labour Party and are more intimate with the method and function of Conservative Party, but on the other hand some other businessmen have expressed their support for the Labour Party in a letter to ***The Times***.

He said that some of these disputes are related to the issue of Britain's accepting the Euro currency adding that Tony Blair has promised to hold a referendum for Euro currency if he was reelected and the conditions were appropriate after two years.

Regarding the fact that recently the conservative Lord Brittan has scolded William Hague the leader of the conservatives, for what he called his wrong policies, Kollenback said that Lord Brittan had done this in an essay printed in *** The Times ***, adding that the case of scolding of one politician by other parties was a usual case, even if the politician was a member of the same party.

Answering to the question that how would he predict the result of the elections, he said that according to a recent poll, it was believed that the Labour Party would win a much greater number of votes than the conservatives. And it means that William Hague may probably be ousted from his position as the leader due to the low number of Conservatives' votes.