Career
The future President started his labor activity in 1971 as an electrician at a creamery in Qurghonteppa . From 1971 to 1974 he served in the Pacific Fleet , and after the service he came back to the creamery .
From 1976 to 1988 Emomalii Rahmon was the Secretary of the Board and the Chairman of the Union Committee of one of the collective farms in Dangara District , the Kulob Oblast , later worked in the party bodies.In June 1988 he was appointed Director of Lenin State Farm .
In November 1992 , he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of Kulob Regional Council of Deputies.On November 19 , 1992 at the XVI session of the Tajikistan Supreme Soviet Rahmon became Speaker of the Parliament . On November 6 , 1994 Emomalii Sharipovich Rahmon was elected President of the Republic of Tajikistan .
On November 6 , 1999 Emomalii Rahmon won the presidential election again, having received 96.9 % of votes, and was elected President for a seven-year term according to the amendments , introduced into the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan after the referendum held on September 26 , 1999 (earlier a President was to be elected only once and for a five-year term ).