The reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, won today, Saturday, the second round of the 14th Iranian presidential elections against the conservative candidate, Saeed Jalili, according to official media reports.
Election officials have so far counted more than 30 million votes, of which Pezeshkian received about 17 million votes, and Jalili received more than 13 million votes, according to results published by the Ministry of Interior.
According to the spokesman for the Election Commission in Iran, Mohsen Islami, Masoud Pazeshkian received 16,384,403 votes, while Saeed Jalili received 13,538,179 votes, after counting 30,530,157 votes from polling stations in the country and abroad.
The participation rate in the second round of the presidential elections reached 49.8 percent, according to the Iranian News Agency, IRNA.
The second round of the Iranian presidential elections took place yesterday, Friday, to elect the ninth Iranian president in Iran, among the candidates, Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian.
The first round of the presidential elections took place on June 28 between the four candidates; Saeed Jalili, Masoud Bazheshkian, Mohammad Baqir Qalibaf, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi, and none of them were able to win an absolute majority, which necessitated a second round between the two candidates with the highest number of votes, namely Bezheshkian and Jalili.
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