President Rouhani’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development has survived a vote of no-confidence in parliament.
Out of 252 MPs present at the impeachment hearing in the Islamic Consultative Assembly Tuesday, 175 MPs voted to keep Abbas Akhundi in office. Seventy-two voted for his dismissal and five abstained.
The in-house vote of the chamber came after speeches by deputies, both for and against the impeachment, and statements by the minister in defense of his performance.
