QURGHON TEPPA, March 2, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- The prosecutor’s office of Khatlon’s Vakhsh district has begun to probe into incident that took place at one of local polling stations on election day.

The Vakhsh prosecutor Umed Karimov told Asia-Plus today that the prosecutor’s office is currently considering an application by Tolib Khojanazarov, head of the precinct election commission (PEC) for polling station #20 in the Vakhsh district, making complaint against candidate for parliament Sayvali Nourov.

“The case materials will be considered in three days,” said the prosecutor, “We will check the facts and examine witnesses.”

We will recall that candidate for the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Sayvali Nourov reportedly beat the PEC head Tolib Khojanazarov, on February 28.

According to Mr. Khojanazarov, Sayvali Nourov came to the polling station in the morning of election day.  “When Nourov saw that one old elderly has two ballot papers with him (his wife is ill, and therefore, she could not come to the polling station), he took the ballot papers from the voter and threw them away and then he lashed out and hit me in the face,” the PEC head said, noting that the incident took place in the presence of the PEC members and some 70-80 voters.

In the meantime, Mr. Sayvali Nourov denied that.  “I revealed violation of the law and our observers drew up an appropriate report on this subject, the head and members of the precinct commission, however, did not sign it,” Nourov noted.

We will recall that four candidates competed for a seat in parliament in the Vakhsh constituency.  All of them are members of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDPT).