 but voters turned out in larger numbers than in round one to make him the top vote-getter, leaving former nuclear negotiator and hardline conservative Saeed Jalili in second place. Bezeshkin voiced only modest proposals on the campaign trail, showing no inclination to push for significant changes to a government that leaves all important matters of state to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Bezeshkin will also be facing a government still largely controlled by hardliners at a time of tensions with the West over a number of issues.