UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with a population of approximately 27.
6
million.
The constitution provides for a presidential system with separation of
powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
In practice
President...
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UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with a population of approximately 27.
6
million.
The constitution provides for a presidential system with separation of
powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
In practice
President Islam Karimov and the centralized executive branch dominated political
life and exercised nearly complete control over the other branches.
Of the 150
members of the lower house of parliament, 135 are elected, and the remaining 15
were reserved for the newly established Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan.
Eighty-four of the 100 senators are chosen in limited elections open only to elected
members of local councils, and the president appoints the remaining 16.
In 2007
the country elected President Karimov to a third term in office; however, according
to the limited observer mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), the government deprived voters of a genuine choice.
Parliamentary elections took pla
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