Rouhani vows better international ties
China Daily | Updated: 2017-05-22 08:02
TEHERAN - Iran's incumbent moderate President Hassan Rouhani won the presidential election by garnering 57 percent of the votes, the Interior Ministry announced on Saturday.
Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that out of 41,220,131 counted votes, which account for 99.7 percent of the total votes cast in Friday's election, Rouhani secured 23,549,616 votes, or 57 percent.
His conservative challenger Ebrahim Raisi lagged behind with 15,786,449 votes, amounting to 38.5 percent of the vote.
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