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Uzbekistan: All Political Parties Nominate Presidential Candidates


Sun 12 Sep 2021 | 07:23 PM
NaDa Mustafa

According to the current legislation and in accordance with the established date for holding elections to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (October 24, 2021), the country's political parties must nominate their candidates for the highest post from August 20 to September 9.

Thus, at the 7th Congress of the Milliy Tiklanish Democratic Party, held on August 26, a candidate was nominated for the deputy speaker of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, party leader Alisher Kadyrov.

In the election program, he noted that the main attention will be paid to the formation of a national system of upbringing and education based on "national and universal values."

On August 27, the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan, at the III Extraordinary Congress, approved the candidacy of Narzullo Oblomurodov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Council of the Party, to participate in the presidential elections in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

In his election program under the motto "We are responsible for the future!" included the development of a "green economy", work with waste, providing the population with drinking water, improving the situation in the Aral Sea region, increasing confidence in the judiciary and other issues.

On September 6, at the congress of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the deputy head of the party, Maksud Vorisova, was approved as a party candidate for the highest political post in the country.

The main goal of the People's Democratic Party is to build a state and society that meet the criteria of social equality and people's democracy.

The Kurultai of the Social Democratic Party "Adolat" on September 8 approved the head of the party, Bakhrom Abdukhalimov, as its candidate for the post of President of the country.

His electoral program includes such items as the fight against corruption and any manifestations of lynching, the creation of the Investigative Committee, the complete elimination of quotas for higher educational institutions, the provision of free education to students with high ratings, and others.

At the X Congress of the Movement of Entrepreneurs and Business People - the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan held on September 9, the presidential candidate from the party, incumbent head of state Shavkat Mirziyoyev presented the election program "Strategy of the New Uzbekistan".

It includes such areas as maintaining peace and stability in the country, strengthening the atmosphere of friendship and harmony between citizens and nations, protecting the rights and freedoms, legal interests of every resident of Uzbekistan, regardless of his nation, language and religion, providing them with a guaranteed source of income, medical services and housing, quality education, poverty reduction and social protection of the population in need, increasing the country's authority and image in the international arena.