Tajikistan's Emomali Rahmon re-elected with over 90 percent of vote following a presidential poll in which he faced token opposition
President Emomali Rakhmon walks after voting at a polling station during Tajikistan's presidential election in Dushanbe on October 11, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Central Electoral Commission said that 90.9 percent of voters in Sunday's poll had cast their ballot for Rahmon who will secure a fresh seven-year term, according to preliminary results. But Rahmon and his government face unprecedented challenges after the weakest economy of all Soviet successor states joined others in being battered by the coronavirus pandemic.Alex Kokcharov, a country risk research analyst at IHS Markit in London said remittances sent home dropped "by 15 to 25 percent year on year in the first half, according to differing reports."
Constitutional changes passed in 2016 allowed the "Founder Of Peace and National Unity, Leader of the Nation", as Rahmon is officially known, to run for office an unlimited number of times.Rights groups have flagged an intensifying crackdown on opposition, media and civil society since the changes took effect.
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