DUSHANBE, April 23, 2014, Asia-Plus – All Tajikistan’s national TV channels will broadcast President Emomali Rahmon’s address to the parliament.
This year, President Emomali Rahmon addresses a joint meeting of both chambers of the parliament on April 23.
Members of the government, heads of regions, cities and districts have also been invited to attend the meeting.
Usually, in an address to the parliament, the president discusses the country’s priorities in domestic politics and foreign policy as well as the main economic challenges.
Last year, the president touched upon issues related to raising the livelihood of the population and called for improvement of the level of education in the country. He also called on the government and the parliament to intensify their work with civil society.
Local experts consider that the president ought to change both structure and mechanism of making such addresses to the parliament.
Dr. Khojamahmad Umarov, expert on the Tajik economy, points to the necessity of controlling the process of implementation of instructions made by the president in his address to the parliament.
He suggests that a special group should be set up at President’s executive Office for controlling implementation of instructions made by the president in his annual address to the parliament.
Tajik political scientist Parviz Mullojonov considers that traditional president’s annual address to the parliament will have effect only if the president tightens control over activities of officials.
He noted that last year and the year before last the president raised the problem of labor migration and internal stability in his addresses.
“I think that this year, taking into account the recent developments in Ukraine and the fact that world order is considerably changing, at least within the CIS area, the president will touch upon mainly the issues related to internal stability, geopolitics and labor migration problems,” the expert noted.
He further added that it was hard to say whether solution would be found to the outlined problems or not. “There ought not to hope that president’s meetings with the parliament will be effective. They will not be effective because it is necessary to change the whole system of management. The main problem is corruption; to solve this problem there ought to reduce the civil service staff and tighten control over activities of officials,” Mr. Mullojonov said.
