DUSHANBE, April 17, 2015, Asia-Plus – Governors of the Sughd Province and the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) have been elected deputy chairmen of Tajikistan’s upper house (Majlisi Milli) of parliament.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, Sughd Governor Abdurahmon Qodiri was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Majlisi Milli and GBAO Governor Shodikhon Jamshed was elected Deputy Chairman of the Majlisi Milli.
The Majlisi Milli has 33 members and 25 of them (three-fourths of the total number of members of the Majlisi Milli) are elected at joint meetings of people’s deputies of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region and its cities and districts, provinces and their cities and districts, Dushanbe city and its districts, cities and districts subordinate to the centre, on the basis of indirect elections by means of secret ballot.
Eight members (one-fourths of the members of the Majlisi Milli) are appointed by the President of the Republic of Tajikistan.
The Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region, provinces, Dushanbe City, cities and districts subordinate to the centre have an equal number of representatives in the Majlisi Milli.
Each former President of the Republic of Tajikistan shall be the life member of the Majlisi Milli, if he doesn’t refuse to use this right.
