TASHKENT: Uzbekistan held a presidential election on Sunday (Jul 9) that looked set to hand incumbent Shavkat Mirziyoyev a third term as head of the gas-rich Central Asian state. The 65-year-old Mirziyoyev had promised to open up his country, a tightly controlled former Soviet republic, to foreign inv
TASHKENT: Uzbekistan held a presidential election on Sunday that looked set to hand incumbent Shavkat Mirziyoyev a third term as head of the gas-rich Central Asian state.
A constitutional referendum this year paved the way for him to serve two more presidential terms and increased the mandate from five years to seven, meaning he could stay in power until 2037. "These are my first elections. I will be voting for Shavkat Mirziyoyev because I want there to be more opportunities for young people and places to study," said 18-year-old Milana Yuldasheva, a resident of Krasnogorsk, a former mining town about 50 kilometres from Tashkent.
"The victory of the incumbent president is obvious," Uzbek political expert Farkhod Talipov told AFP ahead of the vote.
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