People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan

People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan

O‘zbekiston Xalq Demokratik Partiyasi
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan O‘zbekiston Xalq Demokratik Partiyasi
Russian name	Народно-демократическая партия Узбекистана
Abbreviation	XDP
President	Ulugʻbek Inoyatov
Founder	Islam Karimov
Founded	1 November 1991
Registered	1 December 1991
Preceded by	Communist Party of Uzbekistan
Headquarters	Tashkent
Newspaper	Ozbekiston Ovozi
Youth wing	Istikbol
Women's wing	Faol Ayollar
Membership (2009)	368,214
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Colours	Purple
Legislative Chamber	22 / 150
Senate	28 / 100
Website
	xdp.uz
	Politics of Uzbekistan; Political parties; Elections; While nominally a centre-left, social democratic party, it is one of the five pro-government parties.; Green was the party colour until 2021.

The People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: O‘zbekiston Xalq Demokratik Partiyasi, O‘zXDP. Russian: Народно-демократическая партия Узбекистана, НДПУ, Narodno-demokraticheskaya partiya Uzbekistana, NDPU) is a political party in Uzbekistan. It was founded in 1991 as the legal successor of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. Under its founder Islam Karimov, it oversaw the dissolution of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and the establishment of the Republic of Uzbekistan. After Karimov resigned from the party in 1996^[1] and later formed the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, it lost its ruling party status.^[2]

The party identifies with social democracy and centre-left politics, and is the main left-leaning party in the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan. In its statute, it promotes egalitarianism and a regulated social market economy within a welfare state, while supporting non-interventionism in foreign policy. Its core supporters are people who rely on social welfare, pensioners, people with disabilities, and employees;^[3] despite this, it is one of the four parties who acts as a pro-government opposition,^[4] and has done as such since the establishment of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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