DUSHANBE, December 15, 2014, Asia-Plus — The Socialist Party of Tajikistan (SPT) has included seven candidates in the party list for election to the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower house of parliament) that will take place on March 1, 2015.
SDP leader Abduhalim Ghafforov says he tops the party list. “Besides, principal of Dushanbe’s School No 88 Niyoz Jumayev, Candidate of Sciences in Pedagogy Zarif Naimov, academician Izatullo Ghaniyev, lawyer Mavjouda Rajabova, the State Committee on Investment and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest) employee Maroufkhouja Yusufov and businessman Farrukh Boqiyev are also included in the party list,” Ghafforov noted.
According to him, ten other candidates of the party will run in single-mandate constituencies.
Founded in 1993, the Socialist Party of Tajikistan was registered on August 6, 1996. The party is divided in two factions: the pro-government faction led by Abduhalim Ghafforov and the faction led by Mirhusein Narziyev that is not recognized. The party”s founder, Safarali Kenjayev, was assassinated in Dushanbe in late March 1999. The party has not been able to regroup since Kenjayev”s death. Ghafforov says his party now has more 21,000 members.
