The Central Election Commission at its today's meeting adopted a resolution on allowing all five political parties of Uzbekistan to the elections of members of the Legislative Chamber, as well as provincial, district and city councils on October 27.

According to the Electoral Code, after reviewing the application on permission for the elections filed by the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (UzLiDeP), the Adolat Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan, and the Milliy Tiklanish democratic party, the CEC granted them all permissions.

Now the highest bodies of the parties are required to nominate candidates. The nomination of candidates begins 65 days before the elections and ends 45 days before the elections.

The elections will be held for the first time on the basis of a majoritarian-proportional (mixed) system. In this system, constituencies are divided into single-mandate and a single electoral district. 75 deputies of the lower house of parliament will be elected from single-mandate constituencies under the majoritarian system (voting for a candidate), the remaining 75 - under the proportional system, that is, based on votes cast for political parties (on party lists).

Parties can nominate 75 candidates for deputies in single-mandate constituencies, that is, one candidate for deputy in each constituency, as well as from 75 to 100 candidates for deputy on the party list. Candidates included in the party list can be members of this political party or non-party.

The number of women must be at least 40% of the number of candidates for deputies nominated by the party in single-mandate constituencies, as well as on the basis of the list.

Candidates for president and parliament in Uzbekistan can be nominated only by political parties. The possibility of nominating candidates by initiative groups of voters was deleted from the legislation in July 2009.