Editing Politics of Tajikistan (section)

==Legislative branch==
The [[bicameral]] [[Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan|Supreme Assembly]] (''Majlisi Oli'') includes the 63-seat Assembly of Representatives (''Majlisi namoyandagon''), which meets year-round (from November through end of June), and the 33-seat National Assembly (''Majlisi milli''), which meets at least twice per year. The bicameral legislature was introduced in the [[Constitution of Tajikistan|September 1999 Constitution]] and prior to that Tajikistan had a unicameral legislature.<ref name=const2003/>

The members of the Assembly of Representatives are chosen by direct popular election for a five-year term.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/election/tajikistan/tajeleclaw.html| title = Constitutional law ''About the elections to the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan''}}</ref> Of the 63 members of the Assembly of Representatives, 22 are elected by party, in proportion to the number of votes received by each party gaining at least 5 percent of total votes, and the remaining members are elected from single-member constituencies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/2738/|title=IFES Election Guide {{!}} Elections: Assembly of Representatives|website=www.electionguide.org|language=en|access-date=2017-01-25}}</ref>

In the National Assembly, three-fourths of the members are chosen by the deputies of the local representative assemblies (''majlisi'') in the country's four main [[Provinces of Tajikistan|administrative divisions]] and in the cities subordinated directly to central government; each of these subnational jurisdictions is entitled to equal representation. The remaining members are appointed directly by the president.<ref name=const2003/>

The pro-government People’s Democratic Party continued to control both houses of the parliament after the elections of 2005; that party gained 52 of the 63 seats in the Assembly of Representatives. In 2006, 11 women sat in the Assembly of Representatives, and five sat in the National Assembly. Opposition factions in the Supreme Assembly have clashed with pro-government members over some issues.<ref name=cp/>