The Social-Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) is expected to holds its pre-election congress in the second half of December.
SDPT leader Rahmatillo Zoyirov says they have decided to change their pre-election policy. “Our party will change its tactics at the forthcoming parliamentary elections,” said Zoyirov. “If at the previous parliamentary elections that were held in 2015 we put twenty-two candidates on our party list, this time we may reduce the number of candidates on the party list.”
According to him, a part of the presumed nominees are currently in Russia working as labor migrants and they will return home in the near future.
“A certain part of our activities are currently working as labor migrants in the Russian Federation working as labor migrants and we intend to nominate precisely them as candidates to run in the Majlisi Namoyandagon elections next year,” SPT leader said.
The Majlisi Namoyandagon is the lower house of Tajikistan’s parliament. It has 63 members, elected for a five-year term in, 22 by proportional representation (party list) and 41 in single-seat constituencies.
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 about 8,000 members.
