Shavkat Mirziyoyev is new President of Uzbekistan

Monday, 5 December, 2016 - 10:00

Despite the fact, that the official results of the elections which were held on Sunday, has not yet announced, according to the preliminary data, overwhelming majority of voters - 80% are for Uzbekistan's prime minister for 13 years and interim president. At the same time, the turnout was about 88%, while it was enough to cross the 33% threshold to declare the elections valid.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev is well-known to be a conservative politician, which is going to continue the political line of Islam Karimov. This point has allowed him to gain the broad popular support.

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