Shavkat Mirziyoyev

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Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev is an Uzbek politician who has served as the second president of Uzbekistan and supreme commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan since 2016. Previously, Mirziyoyev led the government as a Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2016. Mirziyoyev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR in 1990. From mid-1990s, he headed several regions of Jizzakh and Samarqand as a governor before his appointment as the head of government by then-President Islam Karimov. Following the death of President Karimov, Mirziyoyev was appointed by the Oliy Majlis as acting president of Uzbekistan on 8 September 2016. He was subsequently elected to a full five-year term as president in the 2016 election from the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, winning 88.6% of the vote. Read more

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