DUSHANBE, June 16, Asia-Plus – A congress of the Social-Democratic Party (SDPT) that was held in Dushanbe Saturday reelected Rahmatillo Zoirov as the party leader.
The congress also heard the report of the party’s Political Council on work carried out by it over the past several years.
The Social-Democratic Party was founded n 2002 and registered on December 20, 2002. Rahmatillo Zoirov is chairman of the party. The party currently has some 8,000 members.
The SDPT was originally as the Party of Justice and Development in 1999. Tajikistan’s Ministry of Justice requested that same year that the Supreme Court ban the party’s activities and its registration was canceled. The party re-emerged and was registered under its current name in late 2002.
The SDPT is in constructive opposition to the government.
