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The presidential election kicked off in Uzbekistan on March 29.

The polling stations throughout the whole country opened at 06:00 (UTC/GMT +5 hours) and they will operate till 20:00 (UTC/GMT +5 hours).

In total some 9,060 polling stations, including 44 ones at Uzbekistan’s representative offices in other countries have been created.

Precinct election commissions have made the complete lists of voters – a total of 20,798,052 citizens. All the voters have been informed about the place and date of voting.

The pre-election campaign on started on December 26, 2014.

The presidential candidates are: incumbent President Islam Karimov from the Liberal Democratic Party, the member of the parliamentary faction, chairman of the committee for democratic institutions, NGOs and citizens’ self-government bodies, Akmal Saidov - from the National Democratic Party Milly Tiklanish; the chairman of the Central Council of the People’s Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU) Hotamzhon Ketmonov - from the PDPU, the chairman of the executive committee of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Adolat, Narimon Umarov - from SDP.

The election is being observed by about 300 international observers from 43 countries, missions from five international organizations - Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), CIS, Association of World Election Bodies, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well as 35,000 representatives of four political parties.

The preliminary results of the election will be announced on March 30.

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