DUSHANBE, May 24, 2014, 2016, Asia-Plus – By-elections to Tajikistan’s upper house (Majlisi Milli) of parliament will take place in Dushanbe on May 29.
We will recall that the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) has made a decision to hold by-election to the Majlisi Milli on May 29 this year as former chief of President’s Office, Bakhtiyor Khudoyorzoda, was appointed to head the CCER in late January.
Dushanbe’s local council (Majlis) on April 14 nominated Ozoda Rahmon, head of President”s Executive Office, to the Majlisi Milli.
Some sources say that Ozoda Rahmon will head the Majlisi Milli Committee on Securing of the Constitutional System, Human Rights and Freedoms and Legitimacy.
The 38-year-old Ozoda Rahmon is one of President Emomali Rahmon’s seven daughters. She was appointed as head of president’s administration on January 27, 2016. She had previously served as first deputy foreign minister since May 2014.
Ozoda Rahmon graduated from Tajikistan’s National University before studying in the United States in 2004-06. She has scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences in Law.
She is married with five children. Her husband, Jamoliddin Nouraliyev, is First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT).
Three-fourths of the total number of members of the Majlisi Milli shall be elected at joint meetings of people’s deputies of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region and its towns and districts, regions and their towns and districts, Dushanbe city and its districts, towns and districts subordinate to the center, on the basis of indirect elections by means of secret ballot. The Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region, regions, Dushanbe City, towns and districts subordinate to the center have an equal number of representatives in the Majlisi Milli.
One-fourths of the members of the Majlisi Milli shall be appointed by the President of the Republic of Tajikistan.
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.
