Although on Monday 28 October the European Union welcomed the progress made in the revised legal framework in the wake of the parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan, which were won by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Liberal Democratic Party, it notes that there are still shortcomings and that the political environment remains constrained, “not offering voters a real choice”.
The EU is thus reacting to the preliminary assessment of the election observation mission of the OSCE...