DUSHANBE, December 10, 2014, Asia-Plus — The Islamic Revival Party (IRP) has offered its candidates to electoral commissions that were set up by the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) on December 8 for 41 single-mandate constituencies for elections to Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament.
Mahmoudjon Fayzrahmonov, a spokesman for the IRP, says the list of the party candidates for electoral commissions has been handed over to the central electoral commission.
We will recall that IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri told journalists on December 3 that the Islamic Revival Party hopes to win no less than five seats in the 2015 election and to form its faction in the Majlisi Namoyandagon.
In all, the IRP reportedly intends to nominate 40 candidates for the 2015 parliamentary election due in late February. The party intends to include 20 candidates in the party list and our 20 other candidates will run in single-mandate constituencies.
Founded in October 1990, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is the only Islamic party registered in CIS Central Asia. The IRP was registered on December 4, 1991. It was banned by the Supreme Court in June 1993 and legalized in August 1999. Its official newspaper is
Najot
(Salvation). According to some source, the IRP now has some 50,000 members. Women reportedly constitute more than 51 percent of the Islamic Revival Party members.
It won two seats in the 2010 parliamentary election. IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri and IRP deputy head, Saidumar Huseini, represent the party in the current parliament; both of them came to the parliament from the party list.
