Iran's electoral headquarters has announced that the presidential elections of this country have been extended to the second round due to the candidates not getting a majority of votes.
According to Amac News: Mohsen Islami, the spokesman of Iran's election headquarters, says that in the second round, two leading candidates, Masoud pezeshkiyan and Saeed Jalili, will compete against each other.
According to Islami, the second round of elections will be held on Friday next week.
According to the latest reports, Masoud pezeshkiyan got 5,354,000 votes, Saeed Jalili 4,875,269 votes, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf more than 1,620,000 votes and Mostafa Pourmohammadi 95,172 votes.
Voting in the presidential election started yesterday at 8 am and continued until 12 pm.
After the death of Ibrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation in an air accident in the month of Thor of the solar year of the Islamic Hijri year, the Election Commission of Iran announced the 8th month of Cancer of the solar year of the Islamic year as the possible date for the holding of the fourteenth presidential term of this country.