The Governor of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), Yodgor Fayzov, has been elected deputy speaker of Tajikistan’s upper chamber (Majlisi Milli) of parliament (Majlisi Oli).
A session of the Majlisi Milli, presided over by its head, Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, took place in Dushanbe today.
Majlisi Milli members unanimously voted for electing Yodgor Fayzov as Deputy Head of the Majlisi Milli.
Recall, people’s deputies of GBAO and its cities on March 4 unanimously voted for electing Yodgor Fayzov to the Majlisi Milli.
By president’s decree Yodgor Fayzov was appointed acting governor of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region on October 1, 2018 and the GBAO legislature had to approve the appointment of Yodgor Fayzov as governor of the region but the session of the GBAO legislature had been postponed several times.
The governor of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region and heads of other provinces, cities and districts of Tajikistan are appointed and dismissed by the president and presented to their respective councils for approval.
The local council may issue a vote of no confidence in the chairperson and request his/her dismissal with a vote of two thirds of all council members by secret ballot. The president of Tajikistan must then decide upon the issue within the period of one month.
The heads of the regional, city or district state administrations (hukumat) simultaneously wield executive authority and act as local council chairpersons.
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 center, 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 center 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.
