Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Uzbeks choose weeks in the presidential election which is expected to be expected to win a landslide against weak competition.
Although Shavkat Mirziyoyev has calmed many policies of his dictatorship predecessor, he made a little effort on political reform.
Mirziyoyev, who served in 2016 after the death of Karimov Islam, faced four relatively low visibility candidates who did not even appear for the debate broadcast on television, instead of sending proxies that failed to be involved in substantial discussions.
Independent candidates are not permitted.
“ Other candidates talk about abstract things such as strengthening social security, but they don’t provide details.
They don’t have a real program and they don’t have to do it because they know who will win, “said political analyst Akhmed Rahmonov.
The only challenger Mirziyoyev who was significant notifications in the campaign was Alisher Qodirov, with its proposal that Uzbek worked abroad had to pay taxes in Uzbekistan, extensive ideas were not popular for large parts of the population that depend on the delivery of money from family members abroad abroad .
Mirziyoyev openly disagrees with the proposal and some observers suggest that Qodirov, whose party in the coalition with Mirziyoyov in parliament, made him to channel sound to petellings.
Under Mirziyoyev, freedom of speech has grown compared to the oppression of the Karimov era, and some independent news media and bloggers appeared.
He also relaxes strict control in Islam in a Muslim-dominated country charged by Karimov to fight the dissident view.
He also raised control of the hard currency, encouraging investment from abroad, and he moved to patching foreign relations that deteriorated under Karimov.
“ Mirziyoyev enhances relationships with world players such as Russia, China and the West, while also resolving conflicts with neighbors including building peaceful interactions with Afghanistan, ” said Andrey Kazantsev from the Moscow Foreign Relations Institute.
Uzbekistan and Afghanistan share borders 144 kilometers (89 miles), and Uzbekistan consistently worried that conflict can shed.
Former Soviet Foreign Minister became the first foreign official visiting Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the country in August.