Publish Date: 4 September 2016 - 15:36

TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Gholamhossein Shafei was elected as the head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) on Sunday morning.

The election ceremony to select the tenth chairman of ICCIMA was officially held on Sunday morning in Tehran with attendance of 401 members.

Shafei gained the top position in the Iranian Chamber of Commerce by winning 198 votes while his rival Masoud Khansari only needed five more votes to get the position.

Only 397 of the 401 present members casted their votes during the election ceremony.

Gholamhossein Shafei had previously chaired the seventh round of Iran Chamber of Commerce while he was vice-chairman for two rounds as he will replace Mohsen Jalalpour whose resignation had been accepted about one month ago.

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