TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, August 21. A total of five parties will compete in Uzbekistan's parliamentary election, Trend reports.
According to Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission, the Movement of Entrepreneurs and Businessmen – Liberal-Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, National Revival Democratic Party, Ecological Party of Uzbekistan, People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, Adolat Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan will compete in the election.
Each party collected more than 40,000 valid signatures.
Elections for regional, city, and district council deputies as well as members of Uzbekistan's Oliy Majlis (Parliament)'s Legislative Chamber are scheduled for October 27.
Under Article 128 of the Constitution, elections to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, the Parliament of Karakalpakstan, and the representative bodies of state power in the provinces, districts, and towns are held in the year in which their constitutional term of office expires, on the first Sunday of the third decade of October.