The President of Iran is the highest official elected by direct, popular vote, although the President carries out the decrees, and answers to the Supreme Leader of Iran, who functions as the country's head of state.(see Article 110 of the constitution) Chapter IX of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets forth the qualifications for presidential candidates. Powers of the presidency include signing treaties and other agreements with foreign countries and international organizations, with Supreme Leader's approval; administering national planning, budget, and state employment affairs, as decreed by the Supreme Leader.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Accessed 5-23-2008 The President also appoints the ministers, subject to the approval of Parliament.
Candidates have to be vetted by the Guardian Council, a twelve-member body consisting of six clerics (selected by Iran's Supreme Leader), and six lawyers (proposed by the head of Iran's judicial system and voted in by the Parliament).
The Guardian Council interprets the term supervision in Article 99 as "approbation supervision" () which implies the right for acceptance or rejection of elections legality and candidates competency. This interpretation is in contrast with the idea of "notification supervision" () which does not imply the mentioned approval right. The "evidentiary supervision" (), which requires evidences for acceptance or rejection of elections legality and candidates competency, is another interpretation of mentioned article.Mellat Electronic Newspaper
+Iranian presidential electionhttps://www.moi.ir/Portal/file/?462772/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AA%D8%A7-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84-95.pdf Elections DateEligible votersNumber of votesVoter Turnout PercentageNumber of candidates Winner Number of Votes for WinnerPercentage of Vote 1st election 25 January 198020,993,64314,152,90767.41124Abolhassan Banisadr10,709,33075.6 2nd election24 July 198122,687,01714,572,49364.244Mohammad-Ali Rajai12,960,61991.0 3rd election2 October 198122,687,01716,847,71574.264Ali Khamenei16,007,07297.01 4th election16 August 198525,993,80214,238,58754.783Ali Khamenei12,203,87087.09 5th election28 July 198930,139,59816,452,56254.592Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani15,537,39496.01 6th election 11 June 199333,156,05516,796,75550.664Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani10,449,93364.0 7th election 23 May 199736,466,48729,145,74579.924Mohammad Khatami20,078,18769.06 8th election 8 June 200142,170,23028,155,96966.7710Mohammad Khatami21,659,05377.01 9th election17 June 200546,786,41827,958,93159.762Mahmoud Ahmadinejad17,284,78261.69 10th election12 June 200946,199,99739,371,21484.834Mahmoud Ahmadinejad24,592,79362.63 11th election14 June 201350,483,192 36,821,53872.946Hassan Rouhani18,692,50050.71 12th election19 May 201756,410,234 41,366,08573.334Hassan Rouhani23,636,65257.1413th election18 June 202159,310,30728,933,00448.84Ebrahim Raisi17,926,34561.9 14th election28 June 2024 "runoff"61,452,32124,535,18539.964Masoud Pezeshkian & Saeed Jalili 14th election 5 July 2024 "Second Round"61,452,32130,530,15749.82Masoud Pezeshkian16,384,40353,6
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