Shavkat Mirziyoyev will be able to remain in power until 2040 after Uzbeks backed changes in tightly controlled poll
have overwhelmingly approved constitutional changes that will allow the president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, to remain in power until 2040.In a tightly controlled referendum on Sunday, Uzbeks voted on changes that would extend presidential terms from five to seven years and allow Mirziyoyev to serve two more terms.
Mirziyoyev has presented himself as Karimov’s modern successor. He served 13 years as a loyal prime minister under Karimov’s brutal rule. He then won two elections, in which international observers say he did not face real competition. The constitutional changes also include a ban on capital punishment and the protection of human rights for what Mirziyoyev has called a “new Uzbekistan”.
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