Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who is promising reforms and foreign investments, secures a third term in power after calling for a snap election, according to preliminary results
He previously served as prime minister under his predecessor Islam Karimov before winning his first term in 2016 and getting re-elected in 2021.
A constitutional referendum this year paved the way for him to serve two more presidential terms and increased the mandate from five years to seven, meaning he could stay in power until 2037.'New Uzbekistan' Mirziyoyev, who trained as an engineer, portrays himself as a reformer creating a"New Uzbekistan" and has said he wants to double the gross domestic product to $160 billion soon.He has ended the practice of forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton fields and released political prisoners jailed during Karimov's quarter-century rule.
In July 2022, protests erupted over a plan to remove the right to self-determination from the region of Karakalpakstan.SOURCE:
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