Iran - Interior Min to Announce Final Elections Results on Tuesday, partial results Saturday evening.(Fars).
Iran's Interior Ministry said the final results of
the Friday parliamentary and Assembly of Experts Elections will be
declared on Tuesday, although results of final vote counts in smaller
towns and cities will be declared on Saturday and Sunday.
Interior
Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli told a press conference in Tehran on
Saturday that the results of 70% to 80% of polling stations will be
announced by Saturday night.
"We will start announcing the (partial) results of
the Tehran electorate tonight," he said, but stressed that nationwide
vote counting and declaration of the final results will take place on
Tuesday as final elections results in Tehran will not end any sooner
than Monday.
Ramani Fazli noted that over 60% of all eligible
voters took part in the elections, and over 53,000 polling stations were
set up for some 54,915,024 eligible people to vote.
According to the interior ministry, a sum of 6,229
candidates were cleared to compete for the 290-seat legislature but 729
of them withdrew from candidacy. More than 5,500 carried out the final
registration to run in the race. Candidates from all the three major
camps, the Principlists, Moderates and Reformists were present in the
race.
The winning candidates of the Assembly of Experts' next term, lasting
until 2024, possibly might have to choose the next Supreme Leader of
Iran, or at the very least plan for it
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