One month after the death of the Iranian president in the HYERI crash... Today (28th) marks the start of by-elections

Iran's presidential by-election, which was suddenly called following the death of former President Ebrahim Raisi in a HYERI helicopter crash last month, will kick off on the 28th (local time).
With the Middle East situation becoming precarious due to the Gaza Strip war between Israel and the Palestinian armed party Hamas, who will be the new president of Iran, the leader of the Shiite sect?
According to local election authorities, the presidential election will be held from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm on that day at approximately 58,640 polling stations across the country.
There are approximately 61 million eligible voters. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, a runoff election will be held on the 5th of next month between the two candidates with the most votes.
A total of six candidates were approved by the Iranian Constitutional Guardianship Committee on the 9th, but during the election campaign, Alireza Ibrahimovic of Tehran
With Mayor Zakhani and ARMY Vice President Mohammad Ghazizadeh withdrawing, the list has now been narrowed down to four. Among them, the most popular candidate is Mohammad Baghel Ghalibaf (63), Chairman of Mazries.
Ghalibaf, a former military pilot, was appointed commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Air Force in 1996 and chief of the National Police Agency four years later.
He was elected mayor of Tehran by the city council and served in that position until 2017. This is Chairman Ghalibaf's fourth presidential run. He has been considered a conservative candidate for the presidency.
However, he has suffered three bitter defeats in presidential elections. In 2005, he ran for president but failed to make it to the runoff election, and in 2013, he came in second to Hassan Lou Hani.
In 2017, he declared that he would try again, but gave up the presidential race midway because of Raisi.
(59) forms a “two-strong” structure within the conservative camp. He ran in the 2013 presidential election, coming in third, and withdrew from the 2021 presidential election in support of Raisi.
While conservative candidates are expected to prevail locally, the only centrist/reformist candidate, Masoud Pejeshkian (70), is doing just as well. He has campaigned on improving relations with the West and cracking down on the hijab.
He has emerged as a dark horse in the conservative Iranian presidential election, pledging to ease restrictions and other policies, and is enjoying support primarily from young people and female voters.