DUSHANBE, October 10, Asia-Plus – Three registered candidates for president today held meetings of their staffs to discuss their agitation campaigns.
Olimjon Boboyev, the leader of the Party of Economic reforms and the party candidate for president, said that their meeting had focused on six main issues, including meetings with voters. “We have to consider a schedule of meetings with my potential electros in order to launch the agitation campaign properly,” Boboyev said. As he is rector of the Institute of Transport, the first meeting will be held with students and teachers at this institute.
Zarragul Mirasanova, the chairwoman of the organizational department within the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPT), said that they will also consider a schedule of meetings of the CPT candidate Talbak Ismoilov with his voters today. “Tomorrow, Ismoilov will meet with Vladimir Sotirov, the head of the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace-Building (UNTOP),” Mirasanova said, adding that they will start the agitation campaign in the provinces within the next few days.
Representatives of the incumbent President Emomali Rahmonov have also launched an active agitation campaign.
An October 9 meeting of the central electoral commission presided over by its head Mirzoali Boltuyev registered three candidates for president. Among them are the incumbent President Emomali Rahmonov nominated by the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDPT), Ismoil Talbakov put forward by the Communist Party (CPT) and Olimjon Boboyev fielded in the election by the Party of Economic Reforms. The commission also registered 15 representatives of each of the candidates.
Under the RT Constitutional Law “On the Election of the President of Tajikistan”, the registered candidates have the opportunity to use 30 minutes of airtime on TV and radio to explain their programs and their representatives will have 10 minutes of airtime. No one of the registered candidates has still expressed wish to use this opportunity.
