On December 20, Tajikistan’s Constitution Day, President Ramazan Abdulatipov delivered a speech entitled “The Constitution is a guarantee of stability and protection for all humankind.”
A number of journalists are listed as killed or missing since 1990 in Tajikistan, and the nation’s democracy index is less than 2.0. Tajikistan is a dictatorship in sore need of constitutional reform to restore power to the people. The heads of the legislative, executive, judicial and procuratorial branches should be elected in alternating years, and elections should be free of charge for all candidates. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.
