Bermet Akaeva, the daughter of President Askar Akaev, has submitted all necessary documents to run in 27 February parliamentary elections in Bishkek\'s University District. Roza Otunbaeva, co-chairperson of the Ata-Jurt opposition movement, was recently barred from running in the same electoral district. On 17 January, Ata-Jurt released a statement saying, \"Using state-controlled media that are subordinated exclusively to the interests of the [presidential] family, the president praises his daughter to the whole country and at the same time lambastes the opposition. Meanwhile, all of our attempts to call on the authorities simply to observe the laws the president has signed are viewed as ideological extremism,\" RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. The Kyrgyz NGO Civil Society Against Corruption had earlier accused the authorities of putting pressure on students in the University District to sign a petition in favor of Bermet Akaeva\'s candidacy. (RFE/RL)