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Disruption in internal cohesion would create problems for country: Pezeshkian
Pezeshkian emphasized the necessity of synergy, cohesion and unity among the country’s political factions to overcome external challenges facing the country.
He made the remarks in a meeting with a group of Iranian lawmakers in Tehran on Saturday evening.
Pezeshkian said strict and exclusionary policies in the past have led to the isolation of many “caring and hardworking people” from the management of the country’s affairs. Therefore, the government of national accord has been seeking to employ competent individuals and elites regardless of any attitude, religion or ethnicity to this end.
The meeting came as the Parliament in Iran has already commenced the reviewing of the qualifications of the proposed ministers by the Iranian president.
Earlier on the day, the president attended an open session of the Parliament to defend his 19 ministerial picks.
“The cabinet that was introduced to the parliament today is the government of national unity; the government of national unity is a government that considers itself the government of all Iranian people. The national unity government is obligated to secure the citizenship rights of all Iranians and is committed to the prioritization of national interests over any other interest,” Pezeshkian told the lawmakers at parliament.
During the second day of reviewing the ministers’ qualifications on Sunday, the lawmakers discussed the plans outlined by the proposed ministers for the ministries of foreign affairs, intelligence, economic affairs and finance, health and medical education as well as cooperatives, labor, and social welfare.
President Pezeshkian submitted the list of his new cabinet members to the Parliament on August 11, less than two weeks after he was sworn in before the country’s legislators.
Pezeshkian’s cabinet lineup has ruffled the feathers of a number of individuals in the Reformist camp but he has defended his proposed ministers and has called on critics to “wait for the cabinet to start work and criticize it based on its performance.”