DUSHANBE, June 30, 2013, Asia-Plus — A number of members of Tajikistan’s upper house (Majlisi Milli) are expected to resign during the next session of the Majlisi Milli that will take place in Dushanbe on July 4.
“Members of the Majlisi Milli who now live outside constituencies where they were elected will resign,” a source in the government said. He refrained from giving further details.
We will recall that 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 towns and districts, regions and their towns and districts, Dushanbe city and its districts, towns and districts subordinate to the centre, 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 (five each).
One-fourths of the members of the Majlisi Milli are appointed by the President. Besides, 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.
