Iran’s new president will be announced after the run-off election on July 5. Reform-oriented Majlis deputy Masoud Pezeshkian and ultraconservative candidate Saeed Jalili, former head of the office of Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, formerly Tehran’s chief representative in the nuclear negotiations, will participate in it. DW reports.
As the election headquarters announced, in the first round, Masoud Pezeshkian won 42.5 percent of the votes, Saeed Jalili — 38.7 percent, that is, none of the four participating candidates received an absolute majority. Speaker of Parliament and former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and former Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi dropped out of the race.
Turnout in the snap presidential election was around 40 percent, the lowest in the Islamic republic’s history. Early elections were called after President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on May 19.
