Centrist Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s presidential election run-off against hardline conservative Saeed Jalili.
Tehran : Reformist Massoud Pezeshkian has been elected as Iran’s new president, beating his hardline conservative rival Saeed Jalili.
The vote was declared in Dr Pezeshkian’s favour after he secured 53.3% of the more than 30 million votes counted. Mr Jalili polled at 44.3%.
The run-off came after no candidate secured a majority in the first round of the election on 28 June, which saw a historically low voter turnout of 40%.
Result of the Fourteenth Presidential Election of the Islamic Republic of Iran, July 6th, 2024
- Birth: 29 September 1954 (age 69)
- Education: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
- Profession: Cardiac and Heart Surgeon
- Full Professor at the Medical University of Tabriz
- Minister of Health and Medical Education between 2001 and 2005
- First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 2016 to 2020.
- Tabriz representative in the Parliament of Iran (2008)