President Uzbek, Chavkat Mirziyoyev, won the election with more than 80% of the votes, at the end of a campaign marked by the absence of real opposition.
Le Monde with AFP
The ballot was played in advance. The President of Uzbekistan, Chavkat Mirziyoyev, was re-elected with more than 80% of the votes, announced on Monday, October 25 the Electoral Commission, after a ballot marked by the absence of real opposition. Mr. Mirziyoyev, 64, who has been running the country since 2016, thus won a second five-year.
Sign of the total absence of suspense, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, called on Monday his Ouzbek counterpart to congratulate him with his “convincing victory”, without even waiting for the publication of the results, according to a communiqué of the Kremlin.
The election took place Sunday “Without real competition” and has been tainted by “important irregularities”, Monday Monday observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Parliament European. They identified “signs of urn jam in several polling stations” and noted that “a large number of voters” could vote “without presenting an identity document”, according to a statement.
Prime Minister for thirteen, Mr. Mirziyoyev came to power to the death of the very authoritarian Islam Karimov, the first president of this former Soviet Republic that became independent of Moscow in 1991.
Four puppet competitors
m. Mirzioiev is greeted for abolishing forced labor, open the economy and released from opponents tortured by its ruthless predecessor, Islam Karimov. But he returned more recently with habits of the past, repressing several critical personalities.
“Mirziyoyev now wants to show the West that he is a reformer and he will hold this role until 2025. He promises to Moscow political stability and to keep a lay system. For Washington, he Delans the integration of the country into [the customs union dominated by Moscow]. In Beijing, he promises a corridor across Afghanistan, “says Bakhtiyor Alimdjanov, independent politicist based in Tashkent.
His detractors accuse him of having rejected any opposition during the election. Sunday, Mr. Mirziyoyev confronted four candidates considered puppets and who abstained to criticize him during the campaign.
Announced as a democratic progress, a televised debate had to oppose the five candidates on 19 October or five days before the vote. An unprecedented event since the 1990s. But the President did not come to defend his balance sheet. And his four rivals have sent even more dull representatives, who have just read the programs of their parties in turn.