A total of 198 out of 290 members of parliament voted in favor of the 62-year-old politician on Tuesday, state news agency IRNA reported.
Ghalibaf's re-election is a surprise.
Following the death of Abraham Raisi, observers expected him to run for president.
Born in the north-eastern city of Mashhad in 1961, Ghalibaf was appointed a general at a young age and served as commander of a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq war.
Due to his political ambitions, he also studied political geography and received a doctorate from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran in 2001.
In 2005, Ghalibaf left his military duties and devoted himself entirely to politics.
That same year, he ran in the presidential election, but lost to the eventual winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2005 he became the mayor of Tehran.
There were allegations of corruption in his work in the capital.
Ghalibaf again failed in another bid for the presidency in 2013. He ultimately withdrew his candidacy in 2017.
Critics of the Iranian regime and liberal politicians will remember his instrumental role as a commander in the suppression of student protests in 1999.
The Parliament is the legislative body of Iran.
However, real power is concentrated in the state leadership, with religious leader Ali Khamenei at the top in the role of supreme leader.
khz
Ghalibaf's re-election is a surprise.
Following the death of Abraham Raisi, observers expected him to run for president.
Born in the north-eastern city of Mashhad in 1961, Ghalibaf was appointed a general at a young age and served as commander of a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq war.
Due to his political ambitions, he also studied political geography and received a doctorate from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran in 2001.
In 2005, Ghalibaf left his military duties and devoted himself entirely to politics.
That same year, he ran in the presidential election, but lost to the eventual winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2005 he became the mayor of Tehran.
There were allegations of corruption in his work in the capital.
Ghalibaf again failed in another bid for the presidency in 2013. He ultimately withdrew his candidacy in 2017.
Critics of the Iranian regime and liberal politicians will remember his instrumental role as a commander in the suppression of student protests in 1999.
The Parliament is the legislative body of Iran.
However, real power is concentrated in the state leadership, with religious leader Ali Khamenei at the top in the role of supreme leader.
khz
