The Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdullah Aripov changed his service car from Mercedes-Benz to Chevrolet Malibu. The Uzbek state media reports with reference to the secretary of the head of government, Bekzod Hidoyatov.
Abdullah Aripov held a video recording on March 7, where he instructed all officials to abandon the use of foreign official vehicles, follows from the message.
“The president gave an order – we are obliged to fulfill it without discussions. I am offered to introduce this from March 20 or from April 1, but this will not happen. If there is an order of the president, it must be fulfilled immediately. This is the main task of the government,” the prime minister said.
According to the press secretary, all ministries, departments, the Council of Ministers of Karakalpakstan, Khokimiyat regions and Tashkent have already switched to the use of “domestic cars”.
In particular, the deputy prime ministers now use the Malibu representative sedan, and the hokims of the regions are Tahoe or Traverse SUVs. Hidoyatov specified that all cars are not new, but already available in the transport part, or “garage”.
All former service cars will sell through the E-Auksion platform. Any citizen of the republic will be able to purchase cars from the fleet of the presidential administration at the auction of cars from the Presidential Administration.
according to available information, Senate Chairman Tanzila Narbaev and speaker of the Legislative Chamber Nuriddin Ismoilov now also use Malibu, and when traveling to the regions – Chevrolet Tahoe.
on March fifth at an expanded meeting of the National Council for Combating Corruption, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed to reduce the use of official transport and switch to domestic cars and furniture.