— 🇬🇧 Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK: 'I was asked the other day, what I was going to do for the black community – I told them; 'absolutely nothing, I couldn't give a damn'

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🗳 🇬🇧 UK, national parliament election, Ipsos exit poll:

Seat projection

LAB-S&D: 410 (+208)
CON~ECR: 131 (-234)
LDEM-RE: 61 (+50)
REFORM~NI: 13 (+13)
SNP-G/EFA: 10 (-38)
GREENS-G/EFA: 2 (+1)

+/- vs. 2019 election

https://europeelects.eu/uk2024/

— 🇮🇷 Within several hours, the second round of Iran's Presidential election

Conservative candidate Saeed Jalili will face off against Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian for the Presidency. It will likely be an extremely tight race.

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— 🇮🇷 The Speaker of Parliament & Presidential candidate of the first round, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, casted his vote

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— 🇮🇷 Voter turnout is noticeably higher than last week. Not a good sign for Jalili.

Turnout, as of 15 minutes ago, stands at around 18%, it stood at only 13% last Friday.

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— 🇮🇷 To give some hope to Jalili supporters:

Rural turnout has increased, and Jalili's campaign has been going village to village in order to convince the populace to vote, especially in Kurd / Turk provinces, who overwhelmingly voted for Pezeshkian.

Also, in the past few days, many major Sunni community leaders in Iran have endorsed Saeed Jalili over Masoud Pezeshkian, including in Balochistan.

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— 🇮🇷 The election, based on the expected turnout, will be EXTREMELY close.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: As of half an hour ago, voter turnout has already exceeded 40%, which was the total voter turnout last Friday during the first round

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