Iran Holds Election Today, 61 Million Have The Right To Vote For Ibrahim Raesi's Substitute

Illustration. General elections (elections) or presidential elections (pilpres). (Elemen5 Digital-Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Iran held a general election (election) today, Friday, June 28. The figure of the replacement for President Ibrahim Raesi who died in a helicopter accident will be determined in the interim election.

Citing Al Jazeera, the Iranian people began arriving at the polling stations (TPS) which were open since 8.00 local time and will be closed at 18.00 on the same day.

Iran's Ministry of Home Affairs recorded that 61,452,321 people have the right to vote at home and abroad in this democratic party in Iran.

According to a recent poll survey released by Iran's parliamentary research center, quoted from the Tasnim media, the number of voters in this election is 48.6 percent, meaning the new low in previous elections.

Based on the survey, Pezeshkian became a strong candidate to replace Raesi with 30 percent of the votes, followed by Jalili and Ghalibaf with 18.8 and 16.8 percent, respectively.

Semenaa Pourmohammadi remains at the lowest with six percent.

The survey also revealed that as many as 24 percent of voters were still hesitant, so they were considered to have great potential to win candidate candidates.