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A hardliner and a reformist face off in Iran’s two candidate elections
Updated On: 30 June, 2024 08:29 AM IST | Dubai | Agencies
According to Iranian law, a winner must get more than 50 per cent of all votes cast.
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Press conference held in ministry building after vote count. Pics/Getty Images
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi with reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, an official said on Saturday after an initial vote showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
As per the election spokesman, Mohsen Eslami’s announcement in the Iranian state’s television conference, more than 60 per cent of voters cast no ballot in the race that saw reformist Masoud Pezeshkian (secured 10.4 million votes) perform better than Saeed Jalili (9.4 million), who competed alongside two other hard-liners.
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