The People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (, O‘zXDP.

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: Народно-демократическая партия Узбекистана, НДПУ, ''Narodno-demokraticheskaya partiya Uzbekistana, NDPU'') is a

political party in Uzbekistan This article lists political parties in Uzbekistan, a post-Soviet nation dominated by the supporters of the President of Uzbekistan. Despite small reforms and openness in the 2010s, no true opposition parties are allowed and every registered party ...

. It was founded in 1991 as the legal successor of the

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. Under its founder

Islam Karimov Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov (30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was an Uzbek politician who served as the first president of Uzbekistan, from the country's independence in 1991 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the ...

, it oversaw the dissolution of the

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and the establishment of the

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. After Karimov resigned from the party in 1996 and later formed the

Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party The Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP; ), officially the Movement of Entrepreneurs and Businessmen – Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (), is a political party in Uzbekistan and the country's ruling party. The four other parties i ...

, it lost its

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status. The party identifies with

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and

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. In its statute, it promotes

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and a regulated

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within a

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, while supporting

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in foreign policy. Its core supporters are people who rely on

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, pensioners, people with disabilities, and employees; despite this, it is one of the four parties who acts as a pro-government opposition, and has done as such since the establishment of the Liberal Democratic Party.

History

The party was founded in October 1991 after the

voted to cut its ties with the

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. It had been led by president

since its foundation until 1996, at which point Karimov stepped down and resigned his membership. Karimov created the

(UzLiDeP) in 2003, and despite self-identifying with different ideologies, the parties are widely seen no different from each other, with the UzLiDeP being created to give an illusion of a competitive

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; this is supported by the fact that XDP remained supportive of Karimov's policies and retained his favor. In 2013, Hotamzhon Ketmonov was elected chairman of XDP. After the

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, the party positioned at the

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of the

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, UzLiDeP, and the

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, a

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and moderate

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-oriented party. Ketmonov ran as the party's candidate in the

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, receiving 2.92% of the vote. In the

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, Maqsuda Vorisova pledged to solve issues regarding education and medicine, and ran in a series of platforms related to

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and social priorities in spheres to living standards, justice and equality, and democracy, which were seen to have correlated with the

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. Although losing the race to incumbent

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, Vorisova became one of the runner ups in the election, earning second place with 6.6% vote share, making her the first person since

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to gain more than 5% as a highest-performing non incumbent in the presidential vote.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Legislative Chamber elections

References

External links

* 1991 establishments in Uzbekistan Political parties established in 1991 Political parties in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Political parties in Uzbekistan {{Uzbekistan-party-stub