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Publish date29 Jun 2024 - 13:18
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Iran Presidential candidates Pezeshkian and Jalili head to run off

Two presidential candidates, Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili will compete in a run off election after the initial results reveals none has secured an outright win.
Iran Presidential candidates Pezeshkian and Jalili head to run off
Mohsen Eslami announced the result on Saturday in a news conference carried by national television after the count of over 24.5 million votes.

He said of 24.5 million votes cast, former health minister and senior lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian got 10.4 million while former lead nuclear negotiator and chief of the top security body Saeed Jalili received 9.4 million.

The other two hopefuls – parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and former interior affairs minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi – trailed behind at 3.3 million and over 397,000 respectively. 

Pezeshkian and Jalili will head into a runoff set for July 5. The second round is required if no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote, plus one.

Voting was extended three times on Friday, each time by two hours, after 6:00 p.m. local time when the polling was supposed to close as per the Constitutional requirement of a 10-hour voting period.  

The voting lines finally closed at midnight after which the vote counting began at thousands of polling stations scattered across the country, including more than 6,000 in the capital Tehran.

The snap presidential election was called after President Ebrahim Raeisi passed away in a helicopter crash with seven others on May 19. 

More than 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote in Friday's election, many of them first-time voters.
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