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State Assembly of the Mari El Republic

Regional parliament of Mari El, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7603047
Source-derived summary

The State Assembly of the Mari El Republic (Meadow Mari: Марий Эл Республикысе Кугыжаныш Погын; Russian: Государственное Собрание Республики Марий Эл) is the regional parliament of Mari El, a federal subject of Russia. A total of 52 deputies are elected for five-year terms. 26 deputies are elected by single-member constituencies and another 26 are elected in party lists.

The State Assembly approves ministers, who are nominated by the republic's President.

The presiding officer is the Chairman of the State Assembly.

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The public source identifies “State Assembly of the Mari El Republic” as regional parliament of Mari El, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around State, Assembly and Mari.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 80-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with State, Assembly and Mari providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from State Assembly of the Mari El Republic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.