It took just one round in a presidential election with no surprises.
The ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raïssi won the Iranian presidential election on Friday, in the first round, with more than 62.2% of the vote.
These partial official results were published late Saturday morning in the Tehran time zone.
Out of 28.6 million ballots counted, Ebrahim Raïssi obtained "more than 17,800,000" votes, declared Jamal Orf, president of the National Electoral Commission at a press conference in Tehran.
The latter did not give an estimate of the participation.
The electorate this year has more than 59.3 million Iranians, aged 18 and over.
Presenting himself as the champion of the fight against corruption and the defender of the popular classes with purchasing power undermined by inflation, Ebrahim Raïssi has spent most of his career in the Iranian judiciary.
He is the only one of the four candidates to have really campaigned.
Raïssi embodies repression, according to his opponents
At the end of the ballot box, one of her voters in Tehran confides her hopes in this new presidential figure.
"I hope he will know (spare the population) deprivation", confides this nurse draped in a black chador.
For the opposition in exile and human rights defenders, Ebrahim Raïssi embodies repression.
His name is associated with the mass executions of leftist prisoners in 1988, a drama in which he denies any involvement.
Rohani will step down from power in August
Reelected in 2017 in the first round against Ebrahim Raïssi who then obtained 38% of the vote, President Hassan Rouhani ended his second term at a level of unpopularity rarely reached.
The moderate will step down from power in August.
In Tehran, it is not complicated to find abstainers accusing the government of having "done nothing" for the country or not seeing the point of participating in an election that is decided in advance, or even according to them "organized". to allow Mr. Raïssi to win.
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According to partial figures given by Jamal Orf, Major General Mohsen Rezai, former commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, would finish second with more than 11.5% of the vote, ahead of the former president of the Central Bank Abdolnasser Hemmati (8.3%) and deputy Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hachémi (3.4%).
According to this count, there would be more than 14% of blank or null votes. The electoral campaign was bland, against a background of general fed up with the crisis, in a country rich in hydrocarbons but subject to asphyxiating American sanctions.
