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Reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian becomes the next president of Iran after winning the last presidential runoff elections that was held in the country, Friday.
Pezeshkian’s win is making top news in the social media. He received 16,384,403 votes beating his contender Saeed Jalili who received 13,535179 votes.
This was a clost vote with just under 50 percent turn out according to different sources.
Pezeshkian is a liberal candidate, was member of Iran’s Consultative Assembly since 2008, a former health minister and is a heart surgeon by training.
He beat Jalili, who is seen as an ultra-conservative, is said to be very “ideologically-driven” and was once Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator.
During the election campiagn Pezeshkian said he promises to open up Iran to the world.
The runoff on Friday followed a June 28 ballot in a snap election to find a successor to President Ebrahim Raeisi who lost his life with his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran according to Iran’s Press TV.
Pezeshkian originally ran against a field of five candidates last week, winning the largest number of votes but falling short of a majority which sent him and Jalili to a second round.
