DUSHANBE, March 2, 2010, Asia-Plus — The Islamic Revival Party (IRPT) will hold a meeting tomorrow to determine its further steps regarding voting in the February 28 elections that was marred by widespread fraud, IRPT leader Muhiddin Kabiri said.
“We will also decide whether we will participate in work of the new parliament or we will go on hunger strike or organize demonstration to protest the election result falsification,” said Kabiri. “Anyway, all our actions will be within the framework of Tajikistan’s laws.”
IRPT leader added that he would file lawsuit against the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) over falsification of the election results in the near future. “We have already submitted complaints to the OSCE/ODIHR and this organization will announce its decision soon,” Kabiri said.
He stated that his party had won at least 30 percent of votes through a proportional, party list system from a single nationwide constituency but not 7.7 percent as the CCER announced. “How could our party win only 7.7 percent in the past elections, if in 2005, we won 10 percent votes?” noted Kabiri, “Over the past five years the number of party members of party members have increased, reaching more than 40,000 people to this day.”
He is also indignant at the fact that the results of elections in single-mandate constituencies have not yet been announced.
According to him, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (DPT) has lost this year’s parliamentary elections in all senses. “In these parliamentary elections, the political party has won, which actually has not won the majority of votes,” said Kabiri. “Even if they will now add several percent to us and give one more seat in parliament, we will interpret this as a sop and IRPT is not going to accept this sop.”
