AKIPRESS.COM - Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan’s president since 1990, has won re-election in a victory that will put him in office for another five years.

According to preliminary results announced on Monday by the central electoral commission, Karimov, 77, won 90.39% of the votes in Sunday’s election.

This will be his third term under the current constitution, even though that same treaty limits presidents to two terms, an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe observer mission noted in a report.

The electoral commission said the turnout was at an 91.08%.

Monitoring missions from the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which include former Soviet republics and China, called the election open and democratic, reports The Guardian.

Although Vladimir Churov, the Russian electoral commission head also lauded the vote, he told the state news agency RIA Novosti that “there’s no such thing as totally clean elections” and said his team would discuss “certain remarks on the organisation of the voting” with local authorities.