Mohsen Hashemi Takes Helm at Tehran City Council
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, the son of late Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was elected as the new chairman of Tehran’s City Council by a unanimous vote on Wednesday.
The first official session of the new City Council of Tehran was held on Wednesday morning after the 21 fresh members took the oath of office.
In a ballot in the meeting, Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani was chosen as the chair of the council with a unanimous vote.
Ebrahim Amini was also elected as the vice-chairman of the council, an influential municipal body that appoints the mayor of Tehran.
In the 5th City and Village Councils elections across Iran in May, candidates in a list known as reformists gained the whole 21 seats in Tehran’s City Council.
The highest number of votes went to Hashemi, the son of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and chairman of the country’s Expediency Council who died in January.
The top figure of the list has garnered 1,746,568 votes.
According to Article 7 of the Iranian Constitution, the local councils, together with the parliament, are “decision-making and administrative organs of the State”.
