Iran Re-Elects Rouhani for Presidency

Local Editor

Iranian state television declared President Hassan Rouhani the winner of the country's presidential election, giving him a second four-year.

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli appeared at a press briefing on Saturday to declare Rouhani the winner of the Friday election with 23,549,616 votes, or 57 percent of the total ballots.

Rahmani Fazli said that a total of 41,220,131 had been cast in the election.

The candidate with the second largest number of votes was Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, who garnered 15,786,449 votes, or 38.5 percent.

Mostafa Aqa-Mirsalim and Mostafa Hashemi-Taba, the other two candidates, so far received 478,215 and 215,450 votes respectively.

Iran's 12th presidential election was held on Friday. Elections were also simultaneously held for City and Village Councils.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team