Masoud Pezeshkian won the second round of the Iranian presidential elections, after obtaining about 55 percent of the voters’ votes.
Spokesman for the Election Commission in Iran, Mohsen Islami, said, according to the IRNA news agency, that according to the latest tally of the results of the Iranian presidential elections in its fourteenth session, Pezeshkian won the second round of the elections after obtaining 16 million and 384 thousand and 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 Spokesman indicated that the participation rate in the second round of the presidential elections reached 49.8 percent.
The second round of the Iranian presidential elections took place yesterday, Friday, across the country, and in about 100 countries in the world, to elect the ninth Iranian President from among the candidates, Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili.
The first round of the presidential elections in Iran took plac
e on June 28, among the four candidates (Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi), and none of them was able to win an absolute majority, which necessitated a second round among the candidates with the highest number of votes, namely Bazshkian and Jalili.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency