China News Agency, Beijing, June 19th. Tehran News: According to Iranian media reports on the 19th, the preliminary results of Iran’s 13th presidential election showed that the current Iranian Judicial Director Ibrahim Lehi won about 62% of the vote and locked it. There is no suspense about the victory.

  Iran’s National Television reported on the 19th that Jamal Alf, chairman of the Iranian Presidential Election Commission, announced that 90% of the total votes in the election had been counted. The preliminary results showed that Leahy won 17.8 million votes. 62% of the total number of 28.6 million votes counted.

  According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Leahy has received congratulations from three other candidates.

  Voting for the 13th Iranian presidential election officially began at 7:00 local time on the 18th.

According to Iranian media reports, there were more than 59 million eligible voters in the general election. Iran has set up 72,000 polling points across the country. In order to reduce the turnout rate due to the epidemic and other factors, the Iranian Ministry of Interior has extended the voting deadline to the 19th local time. 2 o'clock in the morning.

  On polling day, Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Rouhani went to the polling place to vote and encouraged the public to actively participate in the vote.

  There are 4 candidates in the Iranian presidential election. In addition to Leahy, there are Mohsin Rezai, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Amir Hussein Gajzad Hash, the first deputy speaker of the parliament. Mi and former governor of the Central Bank Abdul Nasser Hemati.

According to Iranian media reports on the 19th, Rezai, Hashimi and Hemati received approximately 3.3 million, 1 million and 2.4 million votes respectively.

  Pre-election polls show that Leahy is the candidate with the highest approval rate among the Iranian people.

Leahy emphasized in the pre-election debate that if he is elected president, he will make fighting corruption an important task of governance.

He also said that if elected, a strong government will be established to safeguard the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue.

  Leahy was born in 1960 and entered the Iranian judicial system in the 1980s. He has served in a number of senior judicial positions. He has served as the Director of Justice of Iran since 2019 and has participated in the presidential election in 2017.

He is considered by Iranian public opinion to be a loyal follower of Khamenei and a hardliner among the conservatives.

  Iran’s presidential elections are held every four years. The president is elected directly by voters and can be re-elected.

The current President Rouhani will step down on August 3, and the new president is expected to form a new cabinet in mid-August.

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