By empty (2/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Kyrgyz opposition leader said violations have been reported in Sunday\'s parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan. \"Reports have been arriving since the morning about flagrant violations of election regulations and about the use of administrative pressure during the elections and during preparations for the elections,\" Roza Otunbayeva, leader of the Ata-Zhurt (Fatherland) opposition movement told the press on Sunday. \"The elections are unfair and are likely to be followed by a wave of popular protests,\" Otunbayeva said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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