DUSHANBE, March 25, 2011, Asia-Plus — Tolibshoh Saidzoda, an editor of the Dushanbe independent weekly
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, has applied to the electoral commission of Dushanbe’s constituency # 4 for registering him as a candidate for parliamentary by-election scheduled for May 15.
Mr. Saidzoda told Asia-Plus today that he is determined to run in the by-election for a seat in the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber parliament) and “I hope my election program will meet with support of voters.”
We will recall that the by-election will be called following appointment of Shermuhammad Shohiyon who formerly represented this constituency in the Majlisi Namoyandagon as the CCER chairman.
40,500 somoni have been allocated from the national budget for holding the by-election in Dushanbe’s constituency # 4. 79 polling stations will be set up in this constituency that numbers some 100,000 voters.
