The state’s legislative organ is sovereign. The People’s Council (Halk Maslahaty) is the Legislative organ of the Türkmenistan state. Government is the executive organ and is regulated by laws made by the sovereign state.

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The highest representative body of popular power is the People’s Council (Halk Maslahaty) of Türkmenistan.

Türkmenistan’s administrative system consists of great  provinces (welayats), provinces (etrap), districts (shakhers), boroughs and villages in which central and local administrative bodies are formed.

The People’s Council includes:

- the President;

- the deputies of the Parliament (Mejlis);

- People’s Representatives who are elected from provinces and districts for a period of five years and for the services they make they are not paid.

The President, the Parliament, the Cabinet, or not less than one quarter of the established number of members of the People’s Council have the right to submit bills for the consideration of the People’s Council.

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The work of the People’s Council is chaired by the President or any member elected by the People’s Council.

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The most essential element in establishing the state is to take into account national values, history, worldview and so on. That is why the Halk Maslahaty, the People’s Council, is the principal organ of the state administration, and it should remain so in the future. In this way, we will have retained the experience of state which belongs to our national history.

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