TEHRAN Legislators in the Majlis voted Sunday to certify the election of two MP-elects Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and Ali-Akbar Mohtashamipour.
Out of the total 224 votes cast, Haddad-Adel received 131 votes in favor, 22 against.
20 MPs abstained.
Elsewhere, 161 votes were cast in favor of Mohtashamipour, who received 55 votes against and 7 abstentions.
One vote was declared void.
These approvals added one MP to the reformist camp and another to the conservative's in the 290-member Majlis dominated by reformists.
The Majlis Inquiry Committee Chief Hassan Ramezanpour said that (reformist) Mohtashamipour is now practicing a minor pilgrimage, known as umra and is not in a position to defend himself.
Mohtashamipour, a former interior minister was also Iran's ambassador to Syria in the early 1980's. He also headed Bayan daily, which was closed after a wholesale closure of more than 20 reformist periodicals in April on various charges.
Majlis Speaker Mahdi Karrubi hailed Mohtashamipour's role in 1979 victory of the Islamic Revolution.
Earlier, the Majlis had disapproved of Haddad-Adel citing certain ambiguities swirling around the vote count resulting from vote-rigging as the reason.
Haddad-Adel said that he had run for the Sixth Majlis out of his sense of duty.
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