Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at a gathering a day after the presidential election, on the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, outdoors Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 6, 2024. | Picture credit score: AP
Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian will likely be sworn in by parliament in early August because the Islamic Republic’s ninth president, state media reported on July 7.
“The president’s swearing-in ceremony will happen on August 4 or 5,” the official IRNA information company quoted Mojtaba Yosefi, a member of the parliamentary presidency, as saying.
“The President may have 15 days to current his proposed ministers to Parliament for a vote of confidence.”
Iranian presidents-elect should take an oath earlier than parliament earlier than formally assuming workplace.
The swearing-in ceremony takes place after the president-elect receives the official endorsement of the supreme chief of the Islamic republic.
Iran’s president will not be the top of state, and supreme authority resides with the Supreme Chief, a place held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the previous 35 years.
Mr. Pezeshkian gained a runoff election on Friday towards ultraconservative Saeed Jalili to interchange President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in Might.
The 69-year-old reformist gained greater than 16 million votes, about 54%, whereas Jalili gained greater than 13 million, about 44%, of the roughly 30 million votes forged.
Turnout was 49.8%, Eslami added, in contrast with a report low of round 40% within the first spherical.
On July 7, Iranian newspapers revealed images of Pezeshkian on their entrance pages and referred to as for “unity” underneath the president-elect.
