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| Voting is brisk as Tajikistan picks new parliament |
| 2010-02-28 |
| Voting was brisk Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to strengthen the president's nearly two-decade grip on power in Tajikistan, an impoverished country on Afghanistan's border. But the election also has the potential to increase the influence of the only legally registered Islamic party in former Soviet Central Asia. More than half of the 3.5 million eligible voters cast their ballots by midday, the Central Elections Commission said. Many of those voting in the capital, Dushanbe, said they backed the Islamic Revival Party, which currently has only two deputies in the 63-seat parliament. |
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