Hussein Makki has stepped down from the post of the Prime Minister and taken up the position of President. Another die-hard Mosaddeghist, one Ashgar Parsa, has been appointed Prime Minister. Karim Sanjabi, the prominent third candidate hit hard by the Republic's two-phased electoral system, has kept his position as the Foreign Minister and therefore continues to be the de facto second-in-command of the President, whereas Shapour Bakhtiar has been shifted to the Ministry of Finance to appease the strong leftist bloc standing behind Makki.

Shayegan and the common front of technocrats, nationalists and various right-wingers forming around him is beginning to show in policy voting almost immediately after the Presidential election. Their head-on approach to things brings up various forceful economic ideas, some as major as the Shayegan Plan, and his constant push for a more proactive and aggressive foreign policy often catches the rather moderate President's followers off-guard.

As part of a general appeasement strategy taken on by Makki and quickly criticized by Mosaddeghist thinkers, the Shayegan bloc is handed quite a few important positions in government. Shayegan himself retains the still loosely defined Ministry of Industry, whereas Mahmoud Hessabi receives the Ministry of Science and Education, Gholam Hossein Sadighi retains the role of House Speaker, and Jafar Sharif-Emami becomes the Minister of Commerce.

Republican technocrats filling the ranks of the government has already alarmed prominent figures from several parties. Ahmad Zirakzadeh, a fellow Republican, has spoken out against the excessive "pleasing campaign" and called the Shayegan clique's ideology "a dangerous mix of nationalism, anti-religion thinking, and authoritarian technocracy".

Outside of the Republican Party, Hassan Taqizadeh has gone against the general direction of Mellat Iran and called Shayegan "a representative of a wild younger generation that refuses to think clearly in pursuit of some strange ideals".

Ali Dashti from the out-of-parliament Democratic Party spoke out against the Shayegan clique in general, representing his Party's view of the Republican Minister.

While speaking with the media, some Mosaddeghist Republicans have mentioned the possibility of Shayegan breaking off of the Republicans to form his own party, or possibly joining Iran Novin to find likeminded individuals, but Amir-Abbas Hoveyda from Iran Novin has called it an unfounded possibility, saying that while Shayegan's ideas personally fascinate him, he feels uneasy with his approach to politics and reforming.

As for Shayegan himself, the Minister has publicly only gone in-depth about his policies and plans, mostly ignoring the other topics, not even confirming the intent to run for President in the coming elections. He bluntly rejected the notion of splitting from the Republican Party, saying that "my heart belongs to the Republican cause; this is my party, my home, and I will pursue its goals above mine".