Tajikistan
Tajikistan | Central AsiaCurrent Operations
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
(OSCE Other Field Activities)
Authorization date: 06/17
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Voters in Tajikistan cast ballots in a presidential election on October 11 that is expected to extend authoritarian President Emomali Rahmon’s rule over the impoverished Central Asian nation for another seven years.
[…] In Tajikistan's last presidential election, in 2013, Rahmon was reelected by a landslide, with 84 percent of the vote. None of the five presidential elections won by Rahmon has been deemed free and fair by Western election observers.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, already the longest-serving leader in the former Soviet Union, has been nominated to run for the presidency once again.
Tajiks voted in parliamentary elections on March 1 in which President Emomali Rahmon’s ruling party was widely expected to secure a sweeping victory, with only one opposition party participating in the vote.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has labeled the National Alliance of Tajikistan (PMT) -- a group uniting several opposition movements and parties based in the European Union -- as a terrorist and extremist organization. … Tajik authorities have been criticized for cracking down on dissent for years.