Tehran, SAEDNEWS: The six qualified rivals of Rayeesi in the June 18 election, including Abolnasser Hemmati, Mohsen Rezayee, Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, Saeed Jalili, Alireza Zakani, and Amirhossein Qazizadeh Hashemi, held a meeting with him on Wednesday.
The candidates had been invited by the Iranian president-elect to his office to exchange views on the situation in Iran.
During the meeting, Rayeesi urged his six rivals to cooperate with his government to help resolve the existing problems.
"The period of election campaigns is over and now it is the time for friendship, empathy, cooperation, and cooperation to solve the nation's problems," the Iranian president-elect pointed out.
Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Jamal Orf announced on June 23 the final and exact number of votes cast at the 13th presidential elections after receiving precise reports from all ballot stations, adding that the total number of votes cast in Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi’s favor has increased to 18,021,945.
“After receiving all the reports from presidential election polling stations and conforming the reports of executive and supervisors boards of districts and cities across the country, and gathering all of them in the comprehensive election system, the ballot counting supplementary results of the 13th presidential election were concluded,” Orf said.
He declared the final results as follows:
1. Total number of ballot papers (given to those who were present at the ballot boxes): 28,989,529 sheets
2. Votes in the ballot boxes: 28,750,736
3. Non-collected invalid ballots in the ballot boxes: 100,231 sheets
4. Received votes: 28,650,505 votes
5. Invalid received votes: 3,740,688 votes
6. Valid votes: 24,909,817 votes
Votes of each of the candidates:
Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi: 18,021,945 votes
Mohsen Rezayee Mir Qa’ed: 3,440,835 votes
Abdolnasser Hemmati 2,443,387 votes
Seyed Amir Hossein Qazizadeh Hashemi 1,003,650 votes
Orf said that in order to implement Note 1 of Article 2 of the Presidential Election Law, the full results of the vote counting have been announced to the Guardian Council, and according to this note, the final approval of the election falls in the domain the Guardian Council authority.
He added that the difference between the number related to the total number of ballot papers and the number of votes in the ballot boxes is related to the people who participated in the elections but did not cast their votes in the ballot boxes.
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli had announced on June 19 (one day after elections) that based on primary ballot counting, Rayeesi was elected as the new president of the country with 17,926,345 votes cast in his favor in the June 28 elections.
“Of the total number of eligible voters, which was 59,310,307, the total number of votes cast was 28,933,004, which shows a turnout of 48.8%,” Rahmani Fazli told reporters.
“Mr. Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi, with 17, 926, 345 votes, stood first and was elected as the president,” he added.
Rahmani Fazli said that Mohsen Rezayee Mir Qa’ed gained 3,412,712 votes, Abdolnasser Hemmati received 2,427,201 votes and Seyed Amir Hossein Qazizadeh Hashemi earned 999,718 votes and the rest of the votes are considered invalid which includes 3,726,870 votes.
Shortly after the early results, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials as well as different world leaders felicitated Rayeesi on election (Source: FARS NEWS).
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