TEHRAN, Iran: The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has won his second consecutive term in the Office as a result of Country’s 12th Presidential Election held on Friday.
While declaring partial results of the Presidential Election in Tehran on Saturday, the Head of the Election Committee of Iran’s Interior Ministry Ali Asghar Ahmadi announced that Moderation and Development Party’s (MDP) Hassan Rouhani secured 56.88 percent votes while his rival Combatant Clergy Association’s Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi grabbed 38.55 percent of the votes.
Overall Rouhani received 22,796,468 votes whereas the second-in-the-race Raeisi bagged 15,452,194 votes.
The Iranian 12th Presidential Election was held on Friday across the Country in which a total of 40,076,729 votes were cast while the turnout remained above 70 percent.
Besides Rouhani and Raeisi, two other Candidates in the election were Islamic Coalition Party’s Seyyed Mostafa Mirsalim and Executives of Construction Party’s Seyyed Mostafa Hashemi-Taba who secured 455,211 and 210,597 votes respectively.
However, the final result of the Presidential Election is yet be announced by the Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli later in the day.
It was second consecutive win for the 68-year-old Hassan Rouhani who had been ruling the Country as the President since August 2013.
Following the decisive victory in the Iranian Presidential Election 2017, Hassan Rouhani has become Iran’s second president after Muhammad Khatami who received more percentage of the votes in the second term. In previous Presidential Election held in 2013, Rouhani had secured 50 percent of the votes.
