Iran's Presidential Election Goes To Runoff
Date
6/29/2024 10:51:08 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Results in Iran's 14th presidential election show that Iran's
presidential elections have gone to a runoff between Massoud
Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili slated for July 5,
Azernews reports.
Voters cast their ballots on Friday to elect the successor to
President Ebrahim Raisi, who lost his life in a helicopter crash on
May 19.
The ballot boxes of 58,640 polling stations across the country
and 344 others abroad have been counted, Eslami announced on
Saturday.
Over 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote in the
election.
The results of Iran's 14th presidential election show a tight
race between Pezeshkian and Jalili. After counting 24,535,185
votes, Pezeshkian is ahead with 10,415,991 votes while Jalili has
9,473,298.
Another candidate, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, has 3,383,340 votes
while Mostafa Pourmohammadi has 206,397.
Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Alireza Zakani had dropped
their candidacy before the election.
Under Iranian electoral law, a runoff between the two top
candidates is held on the first Friday after the result is
announced if neither wins at least 50% of the votes.
On May 19, 2024, a helicopter carrying late Iranian President
Ebrahim Raisi, late Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and
several other officials crashed while flying from Khudafarin to
Tabriz, and the Iranian president and the entire accompanying
delegation were martyred.
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