Emomali Rakhmonov
| Emomali Rahmon Эмомалӣ Раҳмон |
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| 3rd President of Tajikistan | |
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Assumed office 27 November 1992 Acting: 19 November 1992 – 27 November 1992 |
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| Prime Minister |
Abdumalik Abdullajanov Abdujalil Samadov Jamshed Karimov Yahyo Azimov Oqil Oqilov Kokhir Rasulzoda |
| Preceded by | Rahmon Nabiyev |
| Leader of the People's Democratic Party | |
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Assumed office 10 December 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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Emomali Sharipovich Rahmonov 5 October 1952 Kulob, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | People's Democratic Party (1994–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Azizmo Asadullayeva |
| Children | 7 daughters 2 sons |
| Alma mater | Tajik State National University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Emomali Rahmon (Tajik: Эмомалӣ Раҳмон, Emomalî Rahmon/Emomalī Rahmon; born 5 October 1952) is a Tajikistani politician who has served as President of Tajikistan (or its equivalent post) since 1992.
During the early years of his presidency, Rahmon faced a civil war in which up to 100,000 people died. In 2013, he was elected to a fourth term in office.
Rahmon was born as Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov (Russian: Эмомали́ Шари́пович Рахмо́нов, Emomali Šaripovič Rahmonov) to a peasant family in Danghara,Kulob Oblast (present-day Khatlon province). From 1971 to 1974 he served in the Soviet Union's Pacific Fleet. After completing the military service, Rahmon returned to his native village where he worked for some time as an electrician.
As an apparatchik rising through the nomenklatura, his original power base was as chairman of the collective state farm of his native Danghara. According to his official biography, Rahmon graduated from the Tajik State National University with a specialist's degree in Economics in 1982. After working for several years in the trade union of the Lenin Sovkhoz in Danghara, Rahmon was appointed chairman of the sovkhoz in 1987.
In 1990, Rahmon was elected a people's deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR. President Rahmon Nabiyev was forced to resign in the first months of the Civil War in Tajikistan in August 1992. Akbarsho Iskandarov, Speaker of the Supreme Soviet, became acting president. Iskandarov resigned in November 1992 in an attempt to end the civil unrest. That same month, the Supreme Soviet met in Khujand for its 16th session and declared Tajikistan a parliamentary republic. Rahmon was then elected by the members of the Supreme Soviet as its chairman—a post equivalent to that of president—and the head of government.
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