By empty (3/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Representatives of the People\'s Democratic Party led by President Emomali Rakhmonov have won the most seats in the lower house of the Tajik parliament, Central Elections Commission Chairman Mirzoali Boltuyev said on Tuesday. The barrier of 5% needed to be represented in parliament has also been cleared by the Communist Party and the Islamic Revival Party, Boltuyev said. He said representatives of the Democratic Party, Social-Democratic Party and Socialist Party had failed to muster enough votes in the February 27 parliamentary polls.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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