KULOB, January 4, 2009, Asia-Plus — The Islamic Revival Party (IRPT) intends to nominate 32 candidates to run in elections for the Kulob city legislature (Majlis), which has 40 seats, Mahmadsharif Nabiyev, the head of the IRPT regional organization for Kulob, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.
Elections to local legislatures will also take place on February 28, 2010 and according to him, it will be the second attempt by the party to win seats in the city legislature. “Five years ago, we nominated 12 candidates to run in elections for the Kulob legislature, however, no one of them was elected, though many of them were more competent than their competitors,” Nabiyev said, adding that this time, the party trusts in president’s promise to ensure transparent and free elections.
He added that participation of the IRPT in the remaining eight districts of the Kulob zone was connected with Emomali Rahmon’s recent order demanding that government officials avoid interfering in upcoming parliamentary elections. “In every district of the area, except the Baljuvon district where our party has not yet been officially registered, our party will account at least for 80 percent of the overall number of candidates running in elections for the district legislatures,” Nabiyev noted.
He also said that the district conferences of the party would take place within the next few days would consider nomination of candidates for the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament).
