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56 million Iranians eligible to vote in presidential election

Xinhua, May 9, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that the number of Iranians eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential elections is over 56 million, Tasnim news agency reported.

A total of 56,410,234 Iranians can cast their ballots in the country's 12th presidential vote slated for May 19, Ali Asghar Ahmadi, the head of the Interior Ministry's State Elections Committee, said on Tuesday.

Ahmadi said that some 1.35 million of those eligible will be first-time voters who have turned 18 years old.

Iranians will cast their votes in more than 65,000 ballot boxes across the country on May 19.

According to election authorities, Iranian nationals abroad can also vote in more than 140 countries. Endit