DUSHANBE, December 12, 2014, Asia-Plus – The pre-election congress of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) scheduled for December 16 will take place in IRP’s head office in Dushanbe, IRP deputy leader, Mahmadali Hayit, who is also the head of the IRP election campaign staff, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“The Dushanbe mayor’s office has not yet responded to our application for a hall for holding our pre-election congress and we have decided to hold in it in our head office in Dushanbe,” Hayit said, noting that they lodged the application to the mayor’s office on September 30.
According to him, more than 500 delegates from all regions of the country and some 200 guests will attend the congress that will determine the list of the party candidates for the 2015 parliamentary elections.
The Islamic Revival Party reportedly hopes to win no less than five seats in the 2015 election and to form its faction in the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower house of parliament).
Founded in October 1990, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is the only Islamic party registered in CIS Central Asia. The IRP was registered on December 4, 1991. It was banned by the Supreme Court in June 1993 and legalized in August 1999. Its official newspaper is
Najot
(Salvation). According to some source, the IRP now has some 50,000 members. Women reportedly constitute more than 51 percent of the Islamic Revival Party members.
It won two seats in the 2010 parliamentary election. IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri and IRP deputy head, Saidumar Huseini, represent the party in the current parliament; both of them came to the parliament from the party list.
