Iran’s conservative candidate Ebrahim Raisi won the presidential election with 62% of the vote, according to the non-final official results.
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In a press conference, today, Saturday, the head of the Elections Committee said that Raisi had obtained, according to preliminary results, 17 million and 800,000 votes out of the 28 million who participated in the voting. While candidate Mohsen Rezaei received 3 million and 300 thousand votes. As for the moderate candidate, Abdel Nasser Hemmati, he received two million and 400 thousand votes, in return for Qazizadeh Hashemi receiving one million votes.
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Commenting on the preliminary election results, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that everyone should work with Ebrahim Raisi from now on as he is the elected president. Zarif described Raisi as a “rational man” who would lead the country well.
congrats on winning
In a related context, Al-Jazeera correspondent in Tehran said that outgoing President Hassan Rouhani visited Raisi to congratulate him on winning the presidential elections.
In a televised speech, Rouhani congratulated “the president elected by the people,” without mentioning the name of the president, and said, “Since the official result has not yet been announced, I will postpone the official congratulation. However, it is clear who got the votes.”
Raisi also received congratulations from all his rivals on the victory, before the official announcement of the semi-final results.
Today, Saturday, local media quoted Hemati, the former governor of the Central Bank, as saying in a letter to my president, “I hope that your government under the leadership of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will achieve prosperity and prosperity for our nation.”
It is noteworthy that the winning candidate is one of the senior officials covered by US sanctions, the head of the country’s judiciary, and is believed to have the support of the Revolutionary Guards, and he lost the elections to Rouhani in 2017.
The counting of votes continues after the closure of the polling stations, after voting was extended until two o’clock in the morning local time (+4:30 GMT), and the turnout is the most prominent challenge in these elections.
The Elections Committee of the Ministry of Interior extended voting until two o’clock on Saturday morning, at a time when a spokesman for the Guardians Committee said that polling stations should remain open as long as there are voters who want to vote.
The campaigns of the two candidates, Raisi, Hemti and Hashemi, had earlier called for an extension of the voting process.
Invitations to intensify participation
“I urge everyone, whatever their political view, to vote,” Raisi was quoted as saying by state media after casting his vote. The grievances of our people from the bottom of the weakness are real, but if this is the reason for not participating, it is a mistake.
The Supreme Leader of the Republic, Ali Khamenei, also called on voters to participate strongly in the elections. He said during his vote in Tehran that the people will decide the fate of the country for the coming years through their participation in those elections.
The outgoing President, Rouhani, called on the citizens to vote heavily and put aside the problems that witnessed the stage of presenting candidates for the elections, and said that citizens should realize the importance of these elections for their fate and the fate of the republic.
Who is my boss?
Agence France-Presse said that Raisi’s victory would strengthen the conservative movement’s grip on the joint government bodies in the republic, after its broad victory in the Shura Council elections last year.
Raisi, born 1960 in Mashhad, is a conservative religious and politician. He joined the judiciary in 1980 and worked as a public prosecutor until 1994.
In the same year, he was appointed head of the General Inspection Authority, and in 2004 he held the position of First Deputy of the Judicial Authority, which lasted for 10 years, and the Supreme Leader appointed him as Head of the Judiciary in 2019.
Raisi joined the Assembly of Experts in 2006, and then was appointed in 2017 as a member of the Expediency Council by a decree from Khamenei, and in the 2017 presidential elections he ranked second after Rouhani.
The 2021 elections came in light of an economic and social crisis caused mainly by US sanctions, and exacerbated by the Corona pandemic.