Background on Tajikistan's Presidential Elections

The November 6 presidential election is, in effect, limited to one candidate--the incumbent President Emomali Rakhmonov. Two of three opposition presidential candidates, Saifiddin Turaev from the Party of Justice and Sulton Kuvvatov from the Democratic Party (Tehran Platform), have been denied registration by the Supreme Court, despite their claims that authorities obstructed them from collecting sufficient signatures for registration.