Authorities were still counting ballots two days after Friday's vote for members of parliament and for the Assembly of Experts, which selects the Islamic republic's supreme leader. The official IRNA news agency put the turnout at around "41 percent" among 61 million eligible voters. No official figure had yet been announced.
Iran gears up for elections dominated by conservatives
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Mitsotakis's New Democracy party obtained over 40 percent of the vote, well ahead of the leftist Syriza party led by former premier Alexis Tsipras, which had under 18 percent, according to results of 35 percent of the ballot. The margin would be the widest for the conservatives in almost 50...
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During 16 years in power, she navigated Germany through the 2008 financial turmoil and ensuing eurozone debt crisis, the 2015 refugee influx and then the Covid-19 pandemic.
