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Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Election Noteworthy For Lower Official Voter Turnout

Authorities in Ashgabat have declared Turkmenistan's 19 December parliamentary elections valid, but independent observers have denounced them as a sham. The surprise was the relatively low official turnout figure. Officials say "just" 77 percent of eligible voters cast ballots for the 50 seats in the Mejlis - a lower figure than in previous elections... more

Turkmenistan Election Called Valid Turkmenistan Registers Parliamentary Candidates Turkmen President Removes Laws Against Public Organizations

political parties

	Democratic Party Of Turkmenistan Chairman: Saparmurat Niyazov more
	Agzybirlik (Unity) Founder: Nurberdi Nurmamedov more
	Union Of Democratic Forces Of Turkmenistan Founders: Aleksandr Dodonov, Nurkukhammet Hanamov, Avdy Kuliev, Nazar Suyunov more

	Vatan Founder: Khudaiberdy Orazov, Aleksandr Dodonov more
	Republican Party Of Turkmenistan Co-chairmen: Nurmukhammet Hanamov, Sapar Yklymov more
	Renaissance (Vozrozhdeniye) Founder: Nazar Soyunov more


	Compiled and arranged by Bruce Pannier of RFE/RL's News and Current Affairs Department. With help from Rozinar Khoudaiberdiyev, Arne Goli, and Guanch Guereev of RFE/RL's Turkmen Service and RFE/RL's Naz Nazar. Special thanks to Erika Dailey, director of the Open Society Institute's Turkmenistan Project, and Dr. Steven Sabol of the University of North Carolina for their help in realizing this project.

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Turkmenistan's 19 December parliamentary elections have been declared valid by Turkmen authorities, while critics have declared the poll a sham... more

	parliamentary elections

What the Turkmen Constitution says about:

Unicameral Parliament

Halk Maslahaty

	presidential elections

Incumbent President Saparmurat Niyazov was named president-for-life in 1999. Though Niyazov has suggested holding elections, there have been no clear efforts to plan for presidential elections and state bodies such as the Halk Maslahaty have rejected even discussing the issue... more