Qalibaf Retains Post as Iran’s Parliament Speaker
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian lawmakers elected Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as the speaker of the Iranian Parliament for the sixth consecutive year.
During a session of the Parliament on Tuesday morning, the legislators voted to choose members of the parliament’s presiding board.
Qalibaf remained in the post as the speaker by garnering 219 votes from a total of 272 votes.
The Iranian Parliament currently has 290 representatives, changed from the previous 272 seats since the February 18, 2000 election. The last parliamentary polls were held in March 2024.
The lawmakers take the seats for a four-year term.
Zoroastrians and Jews each elect one representative in the parliament, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians jointly elect one representative, and Armenian Christians in the north and the south are each represented by one lawmaker.
