DUSHANBE, December 8, 2014, Asia-Plus – Representatives of the Social-Democratic Party (SDP) have not been included in a new composition of the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER), which has been submitted by the president for consideration to Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament.
The president’s official website reported on December 6 that the CCER new composition includes representatives of all officially registered political parties.
Meanwhile, SDP deputy leader, Shokirjon Hakimov told Asia-Plus today that their representatives have not been included in the new composition of the central electoral commission.
According to him, opinions of all official political parties should have been taken into consideration before submission of the new composition of the CCER for consideration to the parliament. “Besides, political parties should propose their candidates for the CCER to the president themselves,” Hakimov noted.
SDP deputy leader is sure that non-inclusion of their representatives in the CCER is a signal to all electoral commissions “how to treat the Social-Democratic Party during the parliamentary elections.”
Founded in 2002, the Social-Democratic Party was registered on December 20, 2002. It was originally registered as the Party of Justice and Development on February 5, 1999. Tajikistan”s Ministry of Justice requested the same year that the Supreme Court ban the party”s activities and its registration was canceled. The party re-emerged and was registered under the name of the Social-Democratic Party in late 2002. Chairman of the Social-Democratic Party is Rahmatillo Zoyirov and the party reportedly has more than 8,000 members.
