Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan will be held in 2023. This was stated by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, speaking today with a keynote speech at a meeting of the State Council in Ashgabat, reports the electronic version of the newspaper “Turkmenistan”.
According to him, representatives of the National Parliament play a big role in social and political activities.
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.