Today, the nomination of candidates for the elections of deputies of the Mejlis, members of the velayat, etrap and city halk maslahaty and Gengeshes, which will be held on March 26, 2023, has been completed in Turkmenistan, the Watan information program of the Turkmen television reported.
We remind that, according to the Electoral Code of Turkmenistan, the right to nominate candidates belongs to political parties registered before the scheduled election day, as well as groups of citizens.
After registration with the relevant election commissions, which will end on February 28, the lists of candidates will be published in the press. Then all applicants and their proxies will be given equal opportunities for campaigning and meetings with voters, including at pre-election meetings, meetings, and speeches in the media.
Information about the time and place of meetings with voters, during which they will be able to get acquainted with the election programs of candidates in the most complete way, will be published in the local press.
Monitoring of the course of the pre-election process will be carried out by both national observers and specially invited representatives of various international structures.
According to the Central Election Commission, about three thousand observers have been registered from the Democratic Party, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Agrarian Party, public organizations. They were issued certificates of the established form.
The participation of their representatives as observers in the elections was announced in the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Organization of Turkic States. Representatives of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Bureau for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, and foreign media are also expected to arrive.
As previously reported, Turkmenistan has returned to a unicameral parliamentary system. The Mejlis and the Halk Maslahaty (People's Council), which is the highest representative body of people's power, will act as the legislative body in the country.
We remind that in the last parliamentary elections held in Turkmenistan in 2018, 284 candidates competed for 125 seats in the Mejlis. 168 of them were nominated by three political parties - the Democratic Party, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Agrarian Party. The remaining 116 candidates ran from groups of citizens.
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