DUSHANBE, March 11, 2010, Asia-Plus — A campaign to nominate candidates for election to the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) has been launched today.
“To organize and hold elections to the Majlisi Milli, five constituencies have been set up in Dushanbe, Gorno Badakhshan, Khatlon and Sughd provinces as well as districts subordinate to the center,” Muhibullo Dadajonov, an official with the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER), said.
We will recall that elections to the Majlisi Milli are scheduled for March 25, 2010.
Three-fourths of the total number of deputies of the Majlisi Milli shall be elected at joint meetings of people’s deputies of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region and its cities and districts, regions and their cities and districts, Dushanbe city and its districts, cities and districts subordinate to the center, on the basis of indirect elections by means of secret ballot.
Gorno Badakhshan, regions, Dushanbe, cities and districts subordinate to the centre have an equal number of representatives in the Majlisi Milli (five each). One-fourths of the members of the Majlisi Milli shall be appointed by the president.
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.
