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Huge turnout in Iran’s 2017 elections

Iranians prepare to cast their ballot for the presidential elections at a polling station in northern Tehran on May 19, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

The Iranian nation made history once again by participating in the presidential and City and Village Councils elections on May 19th.

An over 70-percent turnout in the 2017 elections made the headlines as 41.2 million people went to the ballot boxes and elected Hassan Rouhani as their 12th president.

People of Iran said no to the Principlists; not only in the presidential election but also in the city and village councils’ elections. All the members listed by the reformists made their ways into the councils.

With a moderate president and reformist members in the city and village councils, and with regard to the fact that in the parliamentary elections of 2016 all the 30 members of the reformist “list of hope” entered the parliament, we should wait and see how the reformists will handle the issues of the country. 


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