The first polling station for the election of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan opened on October 24 at 04:00 Tashkent time in the cities of Tokyo, Japan, Seoul - South Korea. In addition, the elections of the President of Uzbekistan will end on October 25 at 06:00 Tashkent time in New York.

As previously reported, at the polling stations for the election of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, conditions were created for early voting of voters who cannot be at their place of residence on Election Day.

On October 14-20, 2021, 421 618 citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan took part in early voting at polling stations organized in our country and abroad.

In particular, 301,094 of them voted in Uzbekistan, and 120,524 - abroad. Early voting was suspended on October 20 at 19:00.

The elections will be monitored by a total of 971 international observers, including from about 20 reputable international organizations, in particular 631 international observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly , The Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic Council and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other international organizations, as well as 340 international observers from almost 50 countries.

Also, in order to ensure openness and transparency, 1,439 representatives of 197 local media outlets and 223 representatives of foreign media out of over 140 media outlets were accredited. A total of 1,672 local and foreign media outlets have been accredited.

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