Akbarsho Iskandarov was twice Acting President of Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

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From October 6 1991 to December 2 1991, he acted as President when Rahmon Nabiyev stepped down to fight Tajikistan's first Presidential election. Nabiyev won the election and took over as president, but resigned in September 1992, following a coup d'etat

Coup d'état

A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

. Isakandarov resigned on 20th November 1992, after which the post of President was abolished and Imamali Rakhmonov was installed as head of state.