UZBEKISTAN TO REWRITE THE CONSTITUTION

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Context: Majority of the Uzbekistan citizens voted in favour of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s proposal to rewrite the country’s Constitution.

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• On April 30, 2023, Uzbekistan held a nationwide referendum on a series of constitutional amendments proposed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
• The amendments aimed to enhance various rights and freedoms of the citizens, such as abolishing the death penalty, strengthening the judiciary, and ensuring gender equality.
  • However, they also extended the presidential term from five to seven years and allowed Mirziyoyev to run for two more terms after his current one ends in 2024.
• According to the preliminary results announced by the Central Election Commission, 90.21% of voters supported the constitutional changes, while 9.35% voted against them.

Uzbekistan

• It is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
• It is bordered by;
  • Afghanistan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
• It is home to more than 34 million people, who speak Uzbek as their official language, along with Russian and other regional languages.
• It is one of the two doubly landlocked countries in the world, meaning that it is surrounded by other landlocked countries.
  • The other one is Liechtenstein in Europe.
• It is famous for its silk production.

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