Uzbekistan PM Mirziyoyev wins presidential election

This demonstrates we are coming the way plot by late President (Islam Karimov)," Mirziyoyev, who viewed the declaration through a video interface, told a large number of supporters a rally.

Mirziyoyev, 59, has served as leader from 2003 under Karimov, who kicked the bucket of a stroke in September having run Focal Asia's most crowded country, a previous Soviet republic, for a long time.

Mirziyoyev quickly rose as the presumable successor to Karimov, getting named interval president when the senate speaker, given that part by constitution, surrendered it to support Mirziyoyev.