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1st LD: Larijani elected interim speaker of Iranian parliament

Xinhua, May 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Iranian legislators picked Ali Larijani as the interim speaker of the new Majlis (parliament) on Sunday.

Out of 281 votes, Larijani was elected with 173 votes in favor. The other candidate, Mohammad Reza Aref, who is a reformist politician, won 103 votes.

The interim speaker means the election of a chair temporarily for a few days until the lawmakers meet again to elect the final speaker for one year.

Larijani, who was an independent candidate and favored by the principlist faction in the Majlis, was the speaker of the previous parliaments for several years.

On Feb. 26. Iranians voted in parliamentary elections, while the results showed the gain of reformists although they could not seize the majority.

According to the Press TV, in February elections, reformists swept the polls, winning close to 42 percent of the ballots, followed by principlists with nearly 29 percent of the votes, and independents with 22.41 percent.

The remaining seats went to the religious minorities and candidates endorsed by both reformists and principlists. The lawmakers in Iran are elected for four years. Endit