MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti) - Hassan Rouhani, a candidate aligned with the reformer camp, took the lead in Iran’s presidential elections, according to first results announced early on Saturday.
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said that 861,866 votes have been counted at 1,631 polling stations so far.
According to the early results, almost 402,000 people (or 46.6 percent of all ballots counted) voted in favor of Rouhani.
The conservative mayor of Tehran and former police chief, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, got 14.7 percent (or about 127,000 votes) and comes second. He is closely followed by Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, who garnered 13.8 percent of the vote, or over 119,000 votes in total.
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