Hassan Rouhani new Iranian president

Iran's Interior Ministry has announced the final results of Iran's 11th presidential election.

Based on the results Reformist Candidate Hassan Rohani was elected as the country's next president with 18,613,329 votes.

In total 36,704,156 votes have been counted which marked a 72.7 per cent turn out. Some 35,458,747 votes are considered to be valid. The invalid votes are those that were wrongly submitted, or violated, and will not be counted.

Rouhani was followed by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (6,077,292), Saeed Jalili (4,168,946), Mohsen Rezaee (3,884,412), Ali Akbar Velayati (2,268,753), and Mohammad Gharazi (446,015).

The 11th presidential elections have been officially held yesterday in Iran and 96 foreign countries. Over 50 million Iranians were eligible to take part in Friday's polls.

Due to high amount of people willing to leave their votes for the candidates, the time of the elections was extended several times, before the final closure of the polls.

The president of Iran is elected for a four-year term in a national election. The Guardian Council has vetted the candidates for qualifications.

Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician. He has been a member of the Assembly of Experts since 1999, member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Expediency Council since 1991, member of the Supreme National Security Council since 1989, and head of the Center for Strategic Research since 1992.

Rouhani has been also deputy speaker of the 4th and 5th terms of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005.

He was also heading Iran's former nuclear negotiating team and was the country's top negotiator with the EU-3 (UK, France, and Germany) on the Iran's nuclear program.

On 11 April, 2013, Rouhani announced he would run for president in the elections that will be held in June 2013. He said that he will prepare a "civil rights charter", restore the economy and improve rocky relations with the West if he is elected.


/Trend/