DUSHANBE, February 5, 2010, Asia-Plus — All representatives of ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDPT) nominated to run for parliament in single-mandate constituencies have been registered.
Usmon Solehov, head of the PDPT department for agitation, propaganda and work with media, told Asia-Plus Friday afternoon that that the party has a party list of 22 candidates and nominated its candidates to run for the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) in all 41 single-mandate constituencies.
According to Solehov, in some single-mandate constituencies, the PDPT members will compete for a seat in parliament between themselves.
“In a number of constituencies, candidates nominated by our party will compete with self-propelled candidates who are members of our party,” said he, “For example, in the Tursunzoda constituency, along with representatives from other political parties, two members of the PDPT have been registered: one of them is ex-mayor of Tursunzoda Barakatullo Atokhoja, nominated by the party, and the other one is the self-propelled candidate Homidullo Alisherov.”
He added, “According to our data, more than 60 PDPT members are running individual constituencies.”
We will recall that of 63 seats in the Majlisi Namoyandagon, 22 seats come from party lists and the remainder is elected in first-past-the-post races.
