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Islamic City Council of Tehran

Tehran Islamic City Council
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Type
Type
Leadership
Chairman
Mehdi Chamran
Since September 3, 2014
Deputy Chairman
Morteza Talaie
Since September 3, 2013
Structure
Seats 31
City Council of Tehran members.svg
Political groups
Majority (16)
Minority (15)
Elections
Last election
May 19, 2017
Meeting place
City Council of Tehran, 17 September 2015.jpg
City Council Building
Behesht Street
Tehran
Website
Tehran City Council Website

The Islamic City Council of Tehran (Persian: شورای اسلامی شهر تهران‎‎) is the elected council that presides over the city of Tehran, elects the Mayor of Tehran, and budgets of the Municipality of Tehran.

The council is composed of Thirty one members elected on a Plurality-at-large voting basis for four-year terms. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council are chosen by the council at the first regular meeting in odd-numbered years.

It holds regular meetings on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 am (except on holidays or if decided by special resolution not to meet). The number of members was increased to the 31 in the 2013 local elections.

Persian Constitutional Revolution passed a law on local governance known as “Ghanoon-e Baladieh”. The second and third articles of the law, on “anjoman-e baladieh”, or the city council, provide a detailed outline on issues such as the role of the councils in the city, the members’ qualifications, the election process, and the requirements to be entitled to vote. Baladieh, or the modern municipality in Iran was established in 1910, to cope with the growing need for the transformation of Tehran’s city structures.

After the First World War, Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, immediately suspended the “Ghanoon-e Baladieh” of 1907 and the decentralized and autonomous city councils were replaced by centralist/sectoralist approaches of governance and planning.


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