In the first round of the presidential election, none of the presidential candidates received more than 50% of the votes.
In Iran, the second round of presidential elections, which will take place on July 5, includes former member of the Iranian parliament Masoud Pezeshkiyan and ex-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Europe and America Said Jalili. The Iranian state publication IRNA reported this on Saturday, June 29.
In the first round, 10.4 million voters (42.5%) voted for Pezeshkian, who is considered the only reformist candidate, and almost 9.5 million people (38.6%) voted for Jalili, who is a supporter of a hard-line anti -Western.
Two other candidates dropped out of the election race: Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (he received 3.83 million votes) and former Minister of Justice and Interior Mostafa Pourmohammadi (about 206,000 Iranians voted for him).
Al Jazeera writes that more than 24 million voters took part in the voting, with a turnout of 40%. This is the lowest in history since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
The President of Iran is the head of government of the Islamic Republic. It is the highest elected position in the state, but the president is subordinate to the supreme leader, the Ayatollah. The Ayatollah is the head of state and commander of the Armed Forces. This is the highest official in Iran. The president, on the other hand, has relatively limited power – he can sign international agreements, agreements with other countries and organizations, appoint ministers and governors, but does not influence foreign policy and the army.
Elections for a new president have begun in Iran following the death of the former president, Ibrahim Raisi, as a result of a helicopter accident.
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