Turkmenistan preparing for additional parliamentary elections

By  Trend

The process of nominating candidates in Turkmenistan's additional parliamentary elections for the vacant seats will start Jan. 30 and last until Feb. 28, Trend reports with reference to the Central Election Commission (CEC).

The elections are scheduled for March 31. Among the primary tasks, the CEC identified ensuring transparency and wide alternativeness, as well as raising public awareness.

In line with the Constitution, the parliament adopts laws, makes changes and additions to the Constitution; approves the state budget; resolves issues of holding national referendums, appoints elections of the president, members of the parliament, members of representative bodies; considers issues of appointment and dismissal of the chairman of the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Justice based on the proposals of the head of state; ratifies and denounces international treaties; solves the issues of changing the state border and administrative territorial divisions in the country.