People in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan have voted overwhelmingly to reelect the country’s longtime authoritarian president for another seven-year term in office …
Polls close in Tajikistan vote seen as easy win for strongman
Counting was underway in Tajikistan Sunday in a presidential election expected to pave the way for incumbent Emomali Rakhmon to become the longest-ruling strongman in the former Soviet region.
Presidential polls close in Tajikistan
The Central Commission on Elections and Referenda told that the election was considered valid since voter turnout surpassed 50%, hitting 70.7% …
Presidential election in Tajikistan begins
Presidential election began in Tajikistan on Sunday as 3,375 polling stations opened all over the country at 06:00 local time.
Tajikistan Vote Seen As Easy Win For Strongman
Central Asian Tajikistan goes to the polls Sunday in a presidential election expected to make incumbent Emomali Rakhmon the longest-ruling strongman in the former Soviet space. Few are anticipating …
Tajikistan’s Autocratic Leader Rahmon Seen Extending Rule As Voters Head To Polls
Voters in Tajikistan head to the polls 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 …
A Tajikistan poised on verge of economic calamity set for vote
Presidential elections in Tajikistan are a charade. The real challenge will come after the vote, as the country copes with a looming coronavirus-induced economic disaster …
Tajikistan: Why Authoritarian Elections Also Matter
Easily dismissed as a hollow, authoritarian exercise, the Tajik elections leave no doubt about who will prevail. Tajikistan security services conceded as much last month when they hounded out of the …
What’s Important About Tajikistan’s Presidential Election?
What’s at stake in Tajikistan’s election isn’t the presidency, but what comes next. Kyrgyzstan’s election-induced semi-revolution has certainly occupied most Central Asian observers this week. But …
COVID and the new debt dynamics of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
For all the concerns in recent years that Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were falling into a Chinese debt trap, through the first half of 2020 Bishkek and Dushanbe had been meeting their commitments to …