Turkmenistani People's Council election, 2007
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Parliamentary elections to the Halk Maslahaty were held in Turkmenistan
on 9 December 2007. The election was only for a part of the 2507 members of the People's Council, and all of the candidates were of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
.
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
on 9 December 2007. The election was only for a part of the 2507 members of the People's Council, and all of the candidates were of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
The Democratic Party of Turkmenistan is the only political party in Turkmenistan. The DPT was led by former Soviet provincial Party leader Saparmurat Niyazov from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s until his death in 2006...
.