Ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election with more than 62.2 percent of the vote, according to partial official results released this Saturday. In 28.6 million votes counted, Raïssi got “more than 17,800,000” votes, declared the president of the National Election Commission, Jamal Orf, during a press conference in Tehran, in which he did not give an estimate of the participation. This year’s electorate in Iran has more than 59.3 million Iranians, aged 18 and over. General Mohsen Rezaï, former commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic Republic’s ideological army, came in second, with more than 11.5 percent of the vote, ahead of former Central Bank President Abdolnasser Hemmati (8.3 percent) and deputy Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hachémi (3.4 percent), according to partial figures provided by Jamal Orf. , there will have been more than 14 percent of blank or void votes. Polling stations opened on Friday in Iran for elections to choose the country’s new President over the next four years. More than 59 million Iranians were called to the polls, to choose between the four candidates those to the presidency – three conservatives and one moderate – with the ultra-conservative cleric and current head of the judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, being the favorite. The rivals are Abdolnaser Hemati, former governor of the Central Bank of Iran and the only moderate; Mohsen Rezaí, current secretary of the Council for the Discrimination of the Regime’s Superior Interest and former commander of the Revolutionary Guard; and the first conservative vice president of parliament, Amirhosein Qazizadeh Hashemí. As he has served two consecutive terms, the current Iranian president, Hasan Rohani, in office since 2013, cannot run in the presidential elections, held simultaneously with the municipal and partial elections of some members of parliament and the Assembly of Experts. (RM-NM)Source:Radio Moçambique Online
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