# Milliy Tiklanish

The Uzbekistan "National Revival" Democratic Party (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston “Milliy Tiklanish” Demokratik Partiyasi, OʻzMTDP), often known as simply Milliy Tiklanish, is a national-conservative political party in Uzbekistan. It is allied with the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the country's ruling party.
The party is one of the country's five officially sanctioned political parties along with the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, the Justice Social Democratic Party. and the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan.

## History

On June 3, 1995, the party was created by the decision of the founding congress of the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan "Milliy Tiklanish".
On June 10, 1995, the first issue of the newspaper Milliy Tiklanish was published.
On January 4, 1999, the National Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Fidokorlar (DP Fidokorlar) was created.
On February 4, 1999, the first issue of the socio-political newspaper Fidokor was published.
On June 20, 2008, at the unification congress of the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Milliy Tiklanish and the National Democratic Party Fidokorlar, a new Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Milliy Tiklanish (O’zMTDP) was created on the basis of the two parties.
On August 11, 2008, (O’zMTDP) was registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
On August 13, 2008, a joint founding meeting of the factions of the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Milliy Tiklanish and the National Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Fidokorlar was held and a new faction O’zMTDP was created in the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis.
Since September 9, 2008, founding conferences of O’zMTDP and plenums of regional party organizations were held in the regions. They approved the composition of the Council, the Control and Audit Commission, the Executive Committee of the Council, and elected the Chairman of the Executive Committee and his deputies. In addition, founding conferences and plenums of district (city) party organizations were held, the composition of the Council and the Executive Committee of the Council was approved, and chairmen of the executive committee were elected.
On December 27, 2009, 31 deputies were elected to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, and 954 to local Councils of People's Deputies.
On December 27, 2014, 36 deputies were elected to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis and 1,105 deputies to local Councils of People's Deputies.
In 2015-2016-2021, the party participated in the elections of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The party nominated Akmal Saidov, Sarvar Otamuratov and Alisher Kadyrov for the post of president.
On December 24, 2019, in the elections to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis O’zMTDP and to the local Councils of People’s Deputies, 36 deputies were elected and 1,266 deputies were elected to the local Councils of People’s Deputies.
According to April 1, 2022, the number of party members is 358,377 people. 48% of them are young people, 44% are women.
According to April 1, 2022, the party has 14 territorial (Republic of Karakalpakstan, regions and the city of Tashkent), 175 district councils of 32 cities and 7032 primary party organizations.

## Symbol of the Democratic Party "Milliy Tiklanish"

The description of the symbol of the Democratic Party “Milliy Tiklanish” is as follows:
"The green crescent is a reference to our sacred values and our fertile land.
Blue Earth is a symbol of the honest and pure spirit of our people.
The Simurgh bird is a symbol of prosperity and recovery, taken from Alisher Navoi's work "Lison ut-Tair", and calls for unity towards a common goal, even if thoughts and ideas are different.
Navoi points out that Simurgh (thirty birds in Persian) is their state of union, when thirty ruined birds go to different parts of the world in search of Simurgh, the bird of prosperity, but do not seek him.
The party symbol expresses the goals of uniting our honest and tolerant people towards a common goal in the blessed land of Uzbekistan, based on national and universal values."

## History

The party was formed in 1995 with a largely intellectual membership and has a comparatively high proportion of female members. The party advocates a strong sense of Uzbek culture, desiring a cultural revival, whilst also seeking to build closer links with other states in Central Asia. The party opposes the influence of Russia in the region and attacked the foundation of the Eurasian Economic Community on this basis.
The party announced its intention to merge with the Self-Sacrifice National Democratic Party in 2008, as the two parties shared common goals. The new group has retained the National Revival Democratic Party name.

## Election results

In the 2004–05 Uzbek parliamentary election, the party won 11 out of 120 seats. The party's candidate for the 2007 Uzbek presidential election was Hurshid Dustmuhammad.

### Presidential elections

| Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Votes | % | Result |
| Election | Party candidate | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | | Result |
| 2015 | Akmal Saidov | 582,688 | 3.08 | — | — | Lost N |
| 2016 | Sarvar Otamuradov | 421,055 | 2.35 | — | — | Lost N |
| 2021 | Alisher Qodirov | 888,515 | 5.49 | — | — | Lost N |

### Legislative Chamber elections

| Election | Seats | +/– | Position |
| 2004–05 | 11 / 120 | New | 4th |
| 2009–10 | 31 / 150 | 20 | 3rd |
| 2014–15 | 36 / 150 | 5 | 2nd |
| 2019–20 | 36 / 150 | 0 | 2nd |
| 2024 | 29 / 150 | 7 | 2nd |

## Party newspaper

The Milliy Tiklanish newspaper is a socio-political publication of the Milliy Tiklanish democratic party.
The newspaper covers the activities of the democratic party "Milliy Tiklanish", as well as the activities of deputies of all levels elected from the party. That is, through the central publication of the party, it widely propagates its ideas, goals and objectives, and acquaints the public with the work being carried out in this direction.
Based on the reforms of the “New Uzbekistan”, the demands and proposals of newspaper owners, the Milliy Tiklanish newspaper has radically changed both in content and in form.
Based on the ideas of the party, the newspaper today covers the work carried out in the areas of preserving national and universal values, strengthening the status of the state language, history, culture and art, and the spiritual and educational sphere. The newspaper is becoming increasingly popular thanks to its critical articles analyzing the problems and shortcomings of public life.
The Editor-in-Chief is Mirodil Abdurakhmanov.
The newspaper is weekly and has been published since June 10, 1995.