DUSHANBE, September 15, 2014, Asia-Plus — The Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT) has decided to hold its extraordinary 31st congress in Dushanbe on December 27, 2014.
CPT Secretary Ismoil Talbakov says the congress will determine the party election platform.
According to him the party plenum that took place in Dushanbe on September 14 endorsed delegate quotas for the party extraordinary congress.
Talbakov says the congress will determine a party list of candidates for the 2015 parliamentary elections that will take place in Tajikistan in late February next year and party’s representatives that will run in single-mandate constituencies.
“We intend to include 28 candidates in the party list and seven our candidates will run in single-mandate constituencies,” Talbakov said, noting that the party board has sent recommendations on nominating parliamentary candidates to its primary organizations in the provinces.
“We have to collect more than 4,000 somoni for the election campaign,” said Talbakov. “Electoral deposit of 4,000 somoni is required from each candidate for the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) and by the party board’s decision the fund has been set up to support candidates for the Majlisi Namoyandagon.”
Founded in 1918, the Communist Party of Tajikistan was registered in 1991. According to some sources, the party now has more than 45,000 members. Shodi Shabdolov is leader of the party.
