Alisher Ilkhamov

14 December, 2024

This article was commissioned by Zentralasien-Analysen, a German newsletter specializing in issues related to the Central Asian region. The article offers an analysis of the results of Uzbekistan’s parliamentary elections, held on October 27, 2024. The article was originally written in English and later translated into German. We are now pleased to present the English version, after it was published in the German newsletter on December 9, 2024, in issue No. 166.

The article does not reveal anything fundamentally new about the practice of elections in Uzbekistan. This practice, established during Islam Karimov’s rule, has remained unchanged: “pocket” political parties, the absence of real alternatives, and the lack of genuine separation of powers, with all authority concentrated in the hands of the president. At the same time, the current authoritarian regime has softened somewhat, becoming less repressive than in the past.