Turkmenistan parliament election

[Strudelcutie4427]

It’s today but it’s also a dictatorship on par with North Korea

[Dr. MB]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

[Mazda]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

I dunno, most of the puppet parties seem pretty analogous to those that existed in the East German Volkskammer.

[kelestian]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

Even in DPRK there are two or three fake parties.

[Zuza]

But in East Germany and North Korea these parties were part of a single coalition running in non-alternative elections, while in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan they seem to also imitate a competition between parties.

[DavidB.]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

Sarcasm? Lots of dictatorships do this nowadays, especially in "Eurasia".

[Strudelcutie4427]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

Sarcasm? Lots of dictatorships do this nowadays, especially in "Eurasia".

A lot of them opt for a dominant party system in which the dictators party doesn’t face any credible competition. Disregard the communist countries, and you end up with systems like
Türkmenistan Democratic Party (Berdymukhammedow)
Kazakh Nur Otan (Nazarbayev)
United Russia (Putin)
Then whatever Lukashenko, Aliyev, and Rakhmon are

[pilskonzept]

Essentially they are all trying to emulate Singapore. (Except for China and Vietnam who still subscribe to the one-party/bloc-party model.)

Niyazov would not have been pleased with the turnout numbers.

[Dr. MB]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

Sarcasm? Lots of dictatorships do this nowadays, especially in "Eurasia".

A lot of them opt for a dominant party system in which the dictators party doesn’t face any credible competition. Disregard the communist countries, and you end up with systems like
Türkmenistan Democratic Party (Berdymukhammedow)
Kazakh Nur Otan (Nazarbayev)
United Russia (Putin)
Then whatever Lukashenko, Aliyev, and Rakhmon are

Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. In most dictatorships, the dictator’s party holds 75%+ of seats, while in Turkmenistan the ruling party doesn’t even have a majority.

[Aboa]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

Sarcasm? Lots of dictatorships do this nowadays, especially in "Eurasia".

A lot of them opt for a dominant party system in which the dictators party doesn’t face any credible competition. Disregard the communist countries, and you end up with systems like
Türkmenistan Democratic Party (Berdymukhammedow)
Kazakh Nur Otan (Nazarbayev)
United Russia (Putin)
Then whatever Lukashenko, Aliyev, and Rakhmon are

Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. In most dictatorships, the dictator’s party holds 75%+ of seats, while in Turkmenistan the ruling party doesn’t even have a majority.

Uzbekistan has similar system, so it's not completely unique.

[Strudelcutie4427]

It’s odd, they create the illusion of a multiparty system, something no other dictatorship manages to do.

Sarcasm? Lots of dictatorships do this nowadays, especially in "Eurasia".

A lot of them opt for a dominant party system in which the dictators party doesn’t face any credible competition. Disregard the communist countries, and you end up with systems like
Türkmenistan Democratic Party (Berdymukhammedow)
Kazakh Nur Otan (Nazarbayev)
United Russia (Putin)
Then whatever Lukashenko, Aliyev, and Rakhmon are

Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. In most dictatorships, the dictator’s party holds 75%+ of seats, while in Turkmenistan the ruling party doesn’t even have a majority.

Uzbekistan has similar system, so it's not completely unique.

This seems to be common in the former USSR to have these dominant party/puppet party systems. Out of the 15 former Soviet Republics:

Stable Democratic Republics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Unstable Democratic Republics (due to Russian interference): Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia

Dominant Party, no Dictator: Armenia

Dominant Party/Dictator: Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

Im not sure where Kyrgyzstan would fit in

[pilskonzept]

The Central Election Commission - guided by, in their own words, wise orders and the manuals of Dear President - has not felt the need to publish results in a manner useful to outside observers.

Though they have apparently had to report the seat distribution to the IPU, and it is

Democratic Party of Turkmenistan 55 (+8)
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs 11 (-3)
Agrarian Party 11 (+11)
Groups of Citizens, i.e Independents 48 (+41)

with the Federation of Trade Unions, the Women's Union and the Magtymguly Youth Organisation sadly all losing out.

Turnout 91.7. Overall, a Belarusian rather than a North Korean result.

[kelestian]

The Central Election Commission - guided by, in their own words, wise orders and the manuals of Dear President - has not felt the need to publish results in a manner useful to outside observers.

Though they have apparently had to report the seat distribution to the IPU, and it is

Democratic Party of Turkmenistan 55 (+8)
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs 11 (-3)
Agrarian Party 11 (+11)
Groups of Citizens, i.e Independents 48 (+41)

with the Federation of Trade Unions, the Women's Union and the Magtymguly Youth Organisation sadly all losing out.

Turnout 91.7. Overall, a Belarusian rather than a North Korean result.

I remember from last election, real turnout was pretty meh, about 30%. They couldn't even find good photos of precincts with a lot of people. Independent journalists reported that there were literally no people