TASHKENT: Uzbekistan on Sunday declared its presidential ballot valid after more than the required third of voters turned out in an election that 77-year-old strongman incumbent President Islam Karimov is almost certain to win.
The central electoral commission of the ex-Soviet Central Asian country said 36.55% of the 20 million registered voters had cast their votes in the first four hours, passing the threshold of a third stipulated by Uzbek law for an election to be valid.
Voting at more than 9,000 polling stations across the country began at 6am local time (9am Malaysia) and was set to continue until 8pm (11pm …read more
Source: theSun
