MP of the Legislative Chamber, Doniyor Ganiev has announced that he took the decision to step down as the MP in the lower house of the parliament. He is one of the few members of parliament who spoke out and criticized openly on important issues.

“As a member of parliament, it was the greatest honor for me to be able to live up to the trust placed in me by voters, to convey their concerns, problems and desires to the parliament, to contribute to ensuring that the passed bills were fair and humane, to help the citizens who turned to me. I am always proud that I had this opportunity and happiness,” he wrote.

The voters will give a proper assessment of his parliamentary activities, he added.

“Perhaps I was not always able to live up to the trust of voters who voted for me. However, I tried my best not to go against my conscience, to adhere to my principles. “I have unhesitatingly supported positive norms that serve to ease the burden on people and opposed laws that, in my opinion, contradict the interests and rights of citizens,” Doniyor Ganiev said.

The MP from UzLiDeP party stated that continuing his parliamentary activity “would not benefit either me or the voters.”

“A person must be able to take into account the realities of the changes taking place around him and correctly assess his capabilities and abilities. Although I thought that I was working effectively as a deputy, I realized that continuing this activity will not benefit either me or the voters. I think that now is the right time to make changes in my life, accept new challenges and opportunities,” he said.

He said that he decided to end his parliamentary mandate and not put forward his candidacy in the new elections, due on October 27. He will begin working in the Cabinet of Ministers in the investments department (where he had worked before becoming an MP).

Doniyor Ganiev thanked the voters of the Margilan district, public activists who recognized and supported his work, media representatives and many blogger friends for their trust and support.

He also expressed gratitude to the speaker of the Legislative Chamber, who always gave him the opportunity to express his opinion at parliamentary sessions, fellow deputies, and members of the chamber's staff.

"Regarding parliamentary requests that were not answered. I brought this issue up a couple of times, but no one supported it. You know that the document must go (through the Presidential Administration and receive permission - a mark by former deputy Rasul Kusherbayev, who interviewed him). We also put forward an initiative to define responsibility for interfering with the work of journalists, prepared a document, an article, but for some reason it did not pass... There are regrets that perhaps it was worth being more persistent," he said.

Doniyor Ganiev, 36, graduated from Oxford Brookes University in the UK, majoring in accounting. He was a member of the Legislative Chamber Committee on Innovative Development, Information Policy and Information Technology.

It was proposed to adopt administrative liability for obstructing the legitimate activities of journalists back in August 2019, but this provision was not adopted.