Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was reelected with simply over 87% of the votes in Sunday’s snap election, preliminary outcomes confirmed Monday.
“In accordance with the law, a candidate who receives 50% of the votes plus one vote is considered the elected head of state. Since Shavkat Mirziyoyev, according to preliminary data, won 87.05% of the votes, he is legally elected president,” Zayniddin Nizamkhodjaev, head of the Uzbek Central Election Commission, mentioned throughout a briefing within the capital Tashkent.
Nizamkhodjaev additional mentioned that 15.6 million individuals, or 79.88% of voters, from roughly 20 million registered voters forged their ballots within the presidential election.
Other presidential candidates operating within the election – Robakhon Makhmudova, Ulugbek Inoyatov and Abdushukur Khamzayev – acquired 4.43%, 4.02% and three,74% of the votes, respectively.
Earlier on April 30, Uzbek residents voted on constitutional amendments that present for the extension of the presidential time period from the present 5 years to seven and likewise enable incumbent President Mirziyoyev to be elected once more after two consecutive phrases.
Following the vote, Mirziyoyev introduced early polls, which the Election Commission determined to carry on July 9.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
