Uzbekistan

Population Statistics

29,199,942

Total Population

4,379,991

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

31
dec

Uzbekistan Legislative Chamber 2024

2024

27 February 2009

Signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1993, last amended 2014)

Updated: June 2015

Article 9 states:

Major matters of public and state life shall be submitted for a nation-wide discussion and put to universal vote of the people (referendum). The procedure for holding a referendum shall be specified by law.

 

Article 32 states:

Citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall have the right to participate in the management of public and state affairs, both directly and through representatives. Such participation shall be exercised by way of self-administration, holding referendums and democratic formation of state bodies.

 

Article 117 states:

Citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall have the right to elect and be elected to the representative bodies of state authority. Every elector shall have one vote. The right to vote, equality and freedom of expression of will shall be guaranteed by law...Citizens, who have been legally certified as insane, as well as persons in prisons, may neither elect nor be elected. Any other direct or indirect infringement on citizens’ voting rights shall be inadmissible.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1993, last amended 2014)

Law on the Elections of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2012)

Updated: June 2015

Article 2 states:

Election of deputies of the Legislative Chamber shall be universal. Citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter - citizens) who have reached the age of eighteen by Election Day shall have the right to elect. Citizens who have reached the age of twenty five by Election Day and have permanently resided in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan for not less than five years shall have the right to be elected to the Legislative Chamber. Citizens ruled incapable by court or held in penitentiary facilities serving court sentences shall not be elected and shall not participate in elections.

 

Excerpt from the Law on Elections of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2012)