All five pro-govt parties enter Uzbek parliament: results
All five pro-government parties that competed in Uzbekistan’s first elections under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took seats in the country’s parliament, preliminary results showed yesterday.
Mirziyoyev, who took charge of Central Asia’s most populous state in 2016 after the death of hardline predecessor and former patron Islam Karimov, described Sunday’s vote as “historic.”
But the election lacked opposition representatives and all five parties competing were already represented in the outgoing parliament, which is known for rubber-stamping government policy.
Results based on voting in 128 out of 150 districts announced by the Central Asian country’s central electoral commission showed the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan leading with 43 seats in the 150-member lower house.
Milli Tiklanish, known in English as the National Revival Democratic Party, trailed it with 35.
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