In the first round of voting on Tuesday morning, Ayatollah Yazdi and Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani garnered a majority of votes, while the third candidate, Aytaollah Mohammad Mo’men, failed to win enough votes.
A run-off voting was held afterwards, in which Ayatollah Yazdi could secure 47 votes and take up the post.
Ayatollah Yazdi succeeds Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, who passed away in October 2014.
The Assembly of Experts is a high-ranking body of experts which elects and oversees the activities of the leader of the Islamic Revolution.
Ayatollah Yazdi is a high-ranking cleric among religious academics who already served as the assembly’s deputy chairman.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/english/Home/Single/681295
There are 86 members; 47 means that it was 39 against.
What will happen next?
Wrong again: It was only 73, not 86 at the meeting:
The cleric, who served as Iran’s Judiciary chief between 1989 and 1999, was elected as the new head of the body on Tuesday by winning 47 out of 73 votes. Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani took the rest of the votes.
The vote follows the passing away of the former chairman, Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, five months ago.
Members of the assembly are directly elected to office by people for an eight-year term. It holds biannual meetings to appoint a new chairman.
http://theiranproject.com/blog/2015/03/10/iran-assembly-of-experts-appoints-yazdi-as-new-chairman/
“My guess was wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Yazdii was elected!”
Six of one, half a dozen of another