DUSHANBE, June 30, 2013, Asia-Plus –Tajik journalist Nourali Davlatov considers that the opposition political parties will fail to create a collation for the upcoming presidential election due in Tajikistan in November this year.
“It is not a matter of ideological disparities between them; Tajik political parties are just not ready for creation of collations for both subjective and objective reasons,” Davlatov told Asia-Plus in an interview.
The journalist has noted that attempts to create collations were made also during parliamentary elections in 2005 and presidential election in 2006, “but they came to nothing.”
“Of eight political parties officially registered in Tajikistan, only two – the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) and the Social-Democratic Party (SDP) — may be referred to as the opposition parties. But even they will not be able to create the coalition, especially in view of recent statement by IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri about IRP’s loyalty to incumbent President Emomali Rahmon,” Davlatov stressed.
He further added that “unlike the opposition parties, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has already created an informal coalition and drawn the other political parties around itself.” “Even the newly elected leader of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT) Saidjaffar Ismonov has called on the DPT members to support the incumbent President Emomali Rahmon in the upcoming presidential election,” the journalist said.
According to him, the government political technologists will be able to offer two options during the upcoming presidential election: 1) they will fully support the PDP candidate; or 2) they will find the candidate in order to feign a democratic election on an alternative basis,” the journalist said.
