Turkmenistan will hold parliamentary elections on March 31 instead of retired ones,  reports the Turkmen government.

The document was signed in accordance with Articles 4 and 85 of the Electoral Code of Turkmenistan.

According to the Constitution, the Mejlis (parliament) passes laws, makes changes and additions to the Basic Law, approves the state budget; decides on the holding of national referendums; appoints elections of the president, deputies of the Mejlis, members of representative bodies; considers, at the suggestion of the head of state, the issues of appointment and dismissal of the chairman of the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Justice; ratifies and denounces international treaties; solves the issues of changing the state border and the administrative-territorial division of the country.

“The Qazaq Times”