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Saeed Jalili can become the next President of Iran. Voting for the presidential election in Iran took place on Friday and the counting of votes is still going on. In the initial trends, Saeed Jalili has taken a big lead. Jalili got more than one crore votes while Pezeshkian got 42 lakh votes. Radical Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf got 13 lakh 80 thousand votes.
At the same time, Shia religious leader Mustafa Pourmohammadi got about 80,000 votes. President Ibrahim Raisi died in a plane crash last month. After this, presidential elections are being held in Iran. This election is taking place at a time when there is widespread tension in West Asia due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and Iran has been facing economic crisis for a long time.
Jalili is close to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei
Saeed Jalili is considered close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Jalili is considered one of the greatest leaders and is committed to the basic principles of the Islamic Revolution. His stance on the nuclear bomb is also aggressive, voters have to choose between two hardline candidates, Saeed Jalili and Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and Pezeshkian, a candidate known as a reformer.
80 people had applied for the presidential election
A total of 80 people applied for the presidential election in Iran, but later only 6 names were approved. Two candidates withdrew their names before voting. A total of 4 candidates are in the race in the presidential election. These include Saeed Jalili, Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Mustafa Pourmohammadi and Saeed Jalili.
Candidates must get more than 50% of the votes
Iran has about 61 million voters over the age of 18, of which about 18 million are between the ages of 18 and 30. To win the election, a candidate must get more than 50 percent of the total votes cast. There are many important issues on which the presidential election is held, such as corruption, freedom of the press, law on hijab.