The president of Uzbekistan wins re-election with more than 87% of the vote

July 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has achieved re-election after winning the early presidential elections held on Sunday with more than 87 percent of the votes, according to official results announced Monday by the electoral commission.

The organization has indicated that Mirziyoyev has taken control of 87.05 percent of the votes, well ahead of the leader of the social democratic party Adolat (Justice), Robajon Majmudova, who has obtained 4.43 of the ballots.

Following are Ulugbek Inoyatov, of the People’s Democratic Party, who has collected 4.2 percent of the support, and Abdushukur Jamzayev, of the Party for the Environment, who has won 3.74 percent of the vote.

The electoral commission has indicated that more than 15,650,000 people went to vote on Sunday, so the participation rate stood at 79.88 percent, according to these official data, published by the organization through from your Telegram account.

The elections were held as a direct consequence of the constitutional reform of May, a battery of amendments that make it easier for the president to remain in power for two additional seven-year terms, until 2037.

The support obtained in the referendum has been the spearhead of Mirziyoyev’s campaign in a country that wants to reconvert it into a “social State” through changes that would triple the obligations of the State towards its citizens, would guarantee equal rights between men and women, would abolish the death penalty and give citizens the ability to appeal to the Constitutional Court.

However, the elections have also been held amidst doubts about the reliability of the elections, after the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) regretted on June 26 in its preliminary report that the elections are being held without a real opposition to Mirziyoyev.