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Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2010-01-22 09:36
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The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 7-year term. In the National Assembly (Majlisi Milliy), 34 members are elected by indirect vote to serve 5-year terms. Of these, 25 are selected by local deputies and 8 are appointed by the president, while 1 seat is reserved for the former president.
In the Assembly of Representatives (Majlisi Namoyandagon), 22 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system and 41 members are elected by majority vote in single-member constituencies. All members serve 5-year terms.


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Tajikistan: Islamic Party Leader In Tajikistan Says He Supports Secular System

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2009-09-17 01:48
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Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP), the only officially registered Islamic party in Central Asia, wants to boost its two-seat presence in the Tajik parliament in the next elections, scheduled for February 2010. To achieve that goal, the party is seeking to shrug off its old image of a conservative rural party, recruiting many women and young technocrats.

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