2024-07-06 15:22:08
In the runoff election for the Iranian presidential by-election, reformist candidate Masoud Fezeshkian (70), a member of the Majlis (parliament), was elected.
In the first round of elections held last month, the candidate Pezekian, who caused a stir by breaking expectations that a hard-line, conservative candidate would win easily, ended up winning.
According to Reuters and AFP on the 6th (local time), the Iranian Ministry of the Interior announced that Rep. Fezeshqian had won the runoff election, defeating hard-line and conservative former Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Jalili (59).
The Ministry of the Interior explained that with the final count of votes tentatively completed, Rep. Pezekian received 16.38 million votes (53.3%), while former Deputy Minister Jalili received 13.53 million votes (44.3%).
The voter turnout that day was 49.8%, far higher than the record low of 40% in the first round.
The final voting, which started on the 5th, ended at midnight on the 6th (5:30 a.m. on the 6th, Korean time) after an extended voting period.
Earlier, MP Pezeshkian unexpectedly came in first place with 44.4% of the votes in the presidential by-election held on the 28th of last month following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, but advanced to a runoff election as no candidate secured a majority.
Among the four candidates at the time, Pezeshkian was the only one classified as reformist, and the general opinion was that his chances of being elected were low in Iran, where conservatives and hardliners have dominated politics for years.
However, candidate Pezeshkian has been trying to win over Iranian voters by announcing that he would appoint former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a moderate who played a key role in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, as his foreign policy adviser, and by promising to ease economic sanctions by improving relations with the West and streamlining the hijab crackdown.
Ultimately, it appears that voters who were disappointed with the hardships caused by economic sanctions and oppressive policies such as the increased crackdown on hijabs have turned to Pesachian.
However, in Iran, a theocratic system in which a religious leader higher in power than the president rules the country, it is unlikely that a change in the president will bring about major changes in foreign policy, such as nuclear negotiations.
(Seoul = News 1)
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