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Monday, 8 September 2008

Analysis: How Real Are Prospects For Free And Democratic Elections In Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan will hold parliamentary elections on 26 December. At President Islam Karimov's initiative, the newly elected legislature will be bicameral. But many Western and local observers believe that these elections will be neither fair nor democratic because no opposition groups and parties will be represented. more

political parties

	People's Democratic Party (Halq Demokratik Partiyasi) First Secretary: Asliddin Rustamov more
	Adolat Social Democratic Party (Adolat Sotsyal Demokratik Partiyasi) Chairman: Turgunpulat Daminov more
	Milli Tiklanish (National Renaissance) Chairman: Ibrahim Gafurov more
	Fidokorlar (Demokratik Partiyasi, Self-Sacrificers) Chairman: Akhtam Tursunov more

	Liberal-Democratic Party Chairman: Turgunpulat Daminov more
	Erk Democratic Party NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO REGISTER Founder: Mohammad Solih more
	Birlik Popular Movement (Unity) NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO REGISTER Founder: Abdurakhim Pulatov and Abdumannob Pulatov more


	Compiled and arranged by Bruce Pannier of RFE/RL's News and Current Affairs Department. With help from Zamira Eshanova, Gulnoza Saidazimova and Rahmatjon Koldashev of RFE/RL's Uzbek Service. Special thanks to Professors Gregory Gleason of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and John Schoeberlein director of Harvard�s Program for the Study of the Caucasus and Central Asia for their help in realizing this project.

	introduction

Uzbekistan will hold elections to its parliament, the Oliy Majlis, on 26 December 2004, and a presidential election sometime in 2007. Neither election is likely to offer any serious departure from the established order of politics in the country... more

	parliamentary election

structure of parliament (Oliy Majlis)

what the constitution says

what the election law says

	presidential election

Any Uzbek citizen who is at least 35 years old, has resided in Uzbekistan for 10 years, and is fluent in the state language can run for president... more