A reformist candidate came out top in the first round of voting, indicating a desire for change by many voters
Iranian presidential candidate Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, waves at supporters during a campaign event at a stadium in Tehran .Iran’s demoralised, repressed electorate has voted with its feet – more and more voters, imply walking away from polling stations without casting a valid vote, convinced their exercise of the franchise will make no difference in candidate fields purged of all but mullah loyalists.
On Friday they will vote again in a run-off that pitches Khamenei ally Saeed Jalili, an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator, who leads the ultra-right Paydari party, against a lone reformist who surprised all by passing the mullahs’ candidate vetting process. The liberal – a relative term in Iran – Masoud Pezeshkian is a cardiac surgeon and veteran of the Iran-Iraq war who served as an MP and health minister. He is also a member of the Azeri ethnic minority.
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