Uzbekistan announces preliminary results in parliamentary elections

Leaders of Uzbekistan's Liberal Democratic Party, the National Revival Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party, the People's Democratic Party and the Ecological Party attend a press conference on the preliminary results of parliamentary elections in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Dec. 23, 2019. In Sunday's vote, 128 deputies of the 150-seat lower house of the Uzbek parliament were elected and the second round of the elections will be held in two weeks, the Central Election Commission said Monday. (Photo by Zafar Khalilov/Xinhua)