The 13th congress of the ruling People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT) that took place at the Kokhi Borbad State Complex in Dushanbe on December 13 has endorsed the list of candidates nominated for election through the proportional representation (party list).
1,917 delegates from all regions of the country attended the congress.
President Emomali Rahmon was reelected as chairman of the party. Mr. Abdujabbor Azizi, Ms. Khairiniso Yusufi and Mr. Asror Latifi were elected as deputy heads of the party.
The congress endorsed the list of candidates nominated for election through the proportional representation (party list). The partly list includes 28 persons, including 14 women.
Incumbent members of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Ms. Dilrabo Mansouri, Ms. Firouza Sharifi, Ms. Nasiba Sodiqova and Mr. Abdurahim Kholiqzoda are also on the PDPT’s party list.
Saidmurod Fattohzoda, who had been the first deputy head of the PDPT until last Friday, heads the PDPT’s party list.
Meanwhile, it has already become a practice in Tajikistan that person heading the PDPT’s party list is elected as the first deputy chairperson of the Majlisi Namoyandagon.
Therefore, it can be assumed that Saidmurod Fattohzoda will be elected as the first deputy chairperson of the Majlisi Namoyandagon.
Saidmurod Fattohzoda was born in Kulob in 1958. He graduated from Moscow State University named after Lomonosov in 1981 and the Minsk Institute of Political Sciences and Social Management in 1991. He has scientific degree of Candidate of Political Sciences.
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.
The PDPT is the only political party in Tajikistan that has its offices in Dushanbe and in a number of cities and districts of the country.
The party now has its offices in eighteen cities and districts across the country. In some districts, the party rents buildings for its district organizations.
The PDPT organizing committee was established in 1993, and the party itself was established on December 10, 1994. Until April 1998, it was called the People's Party of Tajikistan.
The party stands for a secular state and society (secularism).
The People’s Democratic Party is the largest political party in Tajikistan, boasting more than 490,000 registered members. President Emomali Rahmon is chairman of the party.
The party has its branches in all regions and largest settlements of Tajikistan. The youth wing of the party is called the Sozandagoni Vatan (Creators of the Motherland).
At the legislative elections, February 27 and March 13, 2005, the PDPT won 74% of the popular vote and 52 out of 63 seats (74 percent of the popular vote). This was an increase from the 2000 elections, in which they won 64.9% of the vote and 38 seats. At the legislative elections, February 28, 2010, the party won 71.69% of the popular vote and 45 out of 63 seats. At the last legislative election, March 1, 2015, the PDPT won 65.4 percent of the vote and 51 out of 63 seats.
