In a message to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday night, President Rouhani praised the "vibrant and successful" local and mayoral elections across Turkiye as a clear sign of people's role in deciding their own fate and the rule of democracy.

Congratulating the Turkish government and nation on holding the polls, the Iranian president also wished welfare for the friendly and brotherly neighbor.

More than 57 million eligible voters could vote at some 200,000 ballot boxes to elect the mayors for 30 metropolitan cities, 51 provincial and 922 districts. They also voted to elect local assembly representatives as well as tens of thousands of neighborhood or village administrators.

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