The Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT) is making preparations for the next parliamentary elections that will take place in the country in early spring next year.
“We are going to hold a pre-election congress in the first half of December,” CPT leader Miroj Abdulloyev told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him, eight candidates will be put on their party list and at least two other candidates will run for parliament in single-mandate constituencies.
“We intend to return to the Parliament,” Abdulloyev noted.
Miroj Abdulloyev (born August 15, 1948) succeeded acting chairman Mirzoazim Nasimov on April 22, 2017, following the death of shot serving party leader Ismoil Talbakov in 2016.
The Communist Party of Tajikistan has lost its two seats in parliament as it failed to pass a 5-percent threshold to get into Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower house of parliament) in March 2015.
Founded in 1918, the Communist Party of Tajikistan was registered in 1991. According to some sources, the party now has some 30,000 members.
