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Tuesday, 15 March 2005

ELECTION RESULTS DISAPPOINTS KYRGYZ OPPOSITION

Published in News Digest

By empty (3/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

According to results available for 71 of the 75 seats in Kyrgyzstan\'s new unicameral parliament, the opposition will only control about 10 percent of the legislature, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported on 14 March. Moreover, preliminary results of the 13 March runoffs indicate that former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiev, an opposition leader who has already declared his intention to run in the October presidential elections, failed to win a seat. Opposition leaders pointed to numerous violations and questioned the legitimacy of the elections.
According to results available for 71 of the 75 seats in Kyrgyzstan\'s new unicameral parliament, the opposition will only control about 10 percent of the legislature, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported on 14 March. Moreover, preliminary results of the 13 March runoffs indicate that former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiev, an opposition leader who has already declared his intention to run in the October presidential elections, failed to win a seat. Opposition leaders pointed to numerous violations and questioned the legitimacy of the elections. Viktor Chernomorets, the leader of the Democratic Movement opposition party, told RFE/RL, \"I have never seen such dirty elections.\" Other opposition representatives echoed his comments. But presidential spokesman Abdil Segizbaev said that the results simply reflected a lack of popular support for the opposition. (RFE/RL)
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