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.
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 Kyrgyz president\'s daughter Bermet Akayeva told journalists at a polling station that \"vote rigging is impossible in the elections.\" \"The parliamentary elections are proceeding in an open atmosphere. Everything has been done to demonstrate that free, open and transparent elections are being held in Kyrgyzstan,\" said Akayeva. (Interfax)