The Oliy Majlis (, /) is the

parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

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. It succeeded the

Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan Overall The Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan (''O'zbekiston Jumhuriyati Oliy Kengashi'') was the supreme legislative and representative body of the state power from August 31, 1991, to December 25, 1994, when the Uzbekistan, Repub ...

in 1995, and was unicameral until a reform implemented in January 2005 created a second chamber. The

legislative chamber A legislative chamber or house is a deliberative assembly within a legislature which generally meets and votes separately from the legislature's other chambers. Legislatures are usually unicameral, consisting of only one chamber, or bicamer ...

has 150 deputies elected from territorial constituencies. The

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

has 100 members, 84 elected from the regions, from the Autonomous Republic of

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and from the capital,

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, and an additional 16 nominated by the

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. Both houses have five-year terms.

Etymology

Majlis (, pl. ') is an Arabic term meaning 'sitting room', used to describe various types of special gatherings among common interest groups of administrative, social or religious nature in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to the Mus ...

'' is the

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word for a sitting room, however it can also refer to a

legislature A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial power ...

as well, and is used in the name of legislative councils or assemblies in some states of the

Islamic world The terms Islamic world and Muslim world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs, politics, and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is ...

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History

Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR

The Supreme Soviet of the

Uzbek SSR The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (, ), also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, UzSSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Soviet Communist P ...

(, ) operated in the country during the

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as its main legislature. Since its establishment in July 1938, when it succeeded the All-Uzbek Congress of Soviets, it has held 12

convocation A convocation (from the Latin ''wikt:convocare, convocare'' meaning "to call/come together", a translation of the Ancient Greek, Greek wikt:ἐκκλησία, ἐκκλησία ''ekklēsia'') is a group of people formally assembled for a specia ...

s: *1st convocation (1938–1946) *2nd convocation (1947–1950) *3rd convocation (1951–1954) *4th convocation (1955–1959) *5th convocation (1959–1962) *6th convocation (1963–1966) *7th convocation (1967–1970) *8th convocation (1971–1974) *9th convocation (1975–1979) *10th convocation (1980–1984) *11th convocation (1985–1989) *12th convocation (1990–1994) On 31 August 1991, during an extraordinary 6th session of the Supreme Soviet, the independence and sovereignty of Uzbekistan was proclaimed. In 1992, the Soviet was renamed to reflect the country's new independence status. After the last convocation, the Supreme Soviet was dissolved and converted into the Supreme Assembly in February 1995.

Office holders

From February 1995 to January 2005, the Chairman of the unicameral Supreme Assembly of Uzbekistan was Erkin Khalilov, who had been Acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1993 to 1995. Since 2005 the Senate and Legislative Chamber have each had their own presiding officer.

Speaker of the Legislative Chamber

* Erkin Khalilov (January 27, 2005 – January 23, 2008) * Diloram Tashmukhamedova (January 23, 2008 – January 12, 2015) * Nuriddinjon Ismailov (since January 12, 2015, Incumbent)

Chairman of the Senate

* (27 January 2005 – 24 February 2006) * (24 February 2006 – 22 January 2015) * Nigmatilla Yuldashev (22 January 2015 – 21 June 2015) * Tanzila Norbaeva (21 June 2019 – present)

References

External links

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1995 establishments in Uzbekistan