 Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani died in October 2014.On March 10, 2015 the Assembly voted in Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi to be the next Chairman.The term begun in 2007 shall allegedly last ten years (rather than the regular eight) due to the "election aggregation" plan of the government, put in place to allow the government to run elections simultaneously for the Assembly of Experts and the Parliament, thereby economizing election administration costs.