Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan will be held on March 26, 2023

Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan will be held on March 26, 2023

Elections of deputies of the Mejlis of the seventh convocation are scheduled for March 26, 2023 in Turkmenistan. The relevant Resolution was adopted by the Legislative Chamber of the Parliament of Turkmenistan, announced the news program “Watan” of the Turkmen television.

On the same day, elections of members of the velayat, etrap and city halk maslahaty of the fifth convocation, as well as members of the Gengeshes of the ninth convocation, will also be held in Turkmenistan.

Let us 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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