Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has won a third presidential term, with 87.05 percent of the vote, Russian state-run news agency TASS quoted the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan Monday.
The Central Election Commission announced Sunday that it had opened about 11,000 polling centers for 20 million voters.
Four candidates competed in the Uzbekistan elections: Mirziyoyev, candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, Head of the People’s Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Ulugbek Inoyatov, Head of the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan Abdushukur Hamzaev, and the Social Democratic Party nominated Robakhon Makhmudova.
The early presidential elections followed the amendments made to the constitution and were approved last May, which stipulated the need to renew the frameworks of the executive and legislative authority, and Mirziyoyev’s declaration that the authority will include only senior officials who obtain the support of the people through the ballot boxes.
The constitutional amendments, which the citizens voted for in a public referendum held at the end of last April, stipulated the extension of the presidential term from five to seven years.
Source: Kuwait News Agency