Tajik Referendum Backs Longer Presidential Mandate

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Tajik Referendum Backs Longer Presidential Mandate

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmonov could stay in office until 2020, according to the preliminary result of a referendum in that country that came out on Monday.

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Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmonov could stay in office until 2020, according to the preliminary result of a referendum in that country that came out on Monday.

The referendum held Sunday approved some 50 changes to the constitution, the most important of which is to allow the president to be elected for two consecutive seven-year terms.

This means 50-year-old Rakhmonov is potentially able to be reelected and rule the central Asian country until 2020 after his current term, which does not count under the revised constitution,expires in 2006.

Reports reaching here from the Tajik capital of Dushanbe said that more than 93 percent of voters support the changes to the constitution in the referendum with a turnout of more than 96 percent.

Rakhmonov was elected to a five-year term as president in November 1994 and was re-elected to a seven-year term in November 1999 following a constitutional change.

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