Turkmenistan government type. Government of turkmenistan since its independence from the soviet union on october 27 1991 turkmenistan has been a nominally democratic republic but there is only one approved political party. Turkmen soviet socialist republic etymology. Parliamentary government cabinet parliamentary government a government in which members of an executive branch the cabinet and its leader a prime minister premier or chancellor are nominated to their positions by a legislature or parliament and are directly responsible to it. The politics of turkmenistan takes place in the framework of a presidential republic whereby the president of turkmenistan is both head of state and head of government.
The suffix stan means place of or country so turkmenistan literally means the land of the turkmen people government type presidential republic. The democratic party of turkmenistan. Every registered political party supports the second and current president gurbanguly berdimuhamedow. This type of government can be dissolved at will by the parliament legislature by means of a no confidence vote or the leader of the cabinet may dissolve the parliament if it can no longer function.
President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two round system. The peoples council approved the implementation of a new constitution in september 2008 which led to the creation of different political parties. Gurbanguly berdymukhammedov capital ashgabat official language turkmen official religion none monetary unit new manat tmt 2 population 2019 est 5942000 3 population rank 2018 112 population projection 2030. No true opposition parties are allowed.
The suffix stan means place of or country so turkmenistan literally means the land of the turkmen people government type.
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