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🇹🇯 Tajikistan
Authoritarian presidential republic under personal rule
SystemAuthoritarian presidential republic under personal rule
Head of statePresident Emomali Rahmon, in power since 1992 and styled Leader of the Nation
Head of governmentPrime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda
LegislatureParliament · a 63-seat Assembly of Representatives and a National Assembly
ElectionsElections are held without genuine opposition · the main Islamic opposition party was banned as terrorist in 2015
Last election2025-03-02 · parliamentary election
Next election2027 · presidential election due
Rahmon has ruled since the civil-war era and holds constitutional exemption from term limits, with his son Rustam Emomali, the Senate chairman and Dushanbe mayor, positioned as successor. Crackdowns have extinguished independent media and hit the Pamiri minority of Gorno-Badakhshan. Remittances from labour migrants in Russia sustain Central Asia's poorest economy.
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