DUSHANBE, May 21, Asia-Plus – According to preliminary results, representatives from Tajikistan’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDPT) have won in two May 20 parliamentary by-elections as well, Asia-Plus has learned from a reliable source at the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER).
We will recall that representatives from three political parties contested two vacant seats in the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament).
Safar Safarov, Deputy Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), nominated by ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDPT), contested the seat representing the Jomi constituency in the Majlisi Namoyandagon with Nemat Kholmurodov, deputy chairman of the Jomi district, nominated by the Agrarian Party (APT).
In the Yovon constituency, deputy Khatlon prosecutor Mahmadamin Hisoriyev, nominated by the PDPT, competed for vacant seat in parliament with Rustam Nazarov, teacher at Tajik Transport Institute, nominated by the Party of Economic Reforms.
Alisher Safarov, a lawyer with the central electoral commission, said that in the Jomi constituency, Safar Safarov had won the by-election with 92.5 percent of the vote. The Jomi constituency numbers 77,630 voters; of them, 73,283 came to ballot boxes at polling stations. Member of the Agrarian Party received only 4,853 votes, according to Alisher Safarov.
The Yovon constituency numbers 78,000 voters and 71,316 people came to ballot boxes yesterday. Mahmadamin Hisoriyev won with 91.2 percent, while his opponent Rustam Nazarov received only 3,629 votes.
We will recall that PDPT also won the previous three parliamentary by-elections that were held in Hamadoni, Kulob and Dushanbe on April 1. In Hamadoni district, Safarali Gulov won with 96 percent of the vote, with his opponent, Abdulqodir Hasanpour of the Islamic Revival Party, garnering just 2 percent of the vote. In the remaining two by-elections, in Dushanbe and Kulob, the PDPT members ran unopposed.
