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Kyrgyzstan Election Result
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- Last Updated: Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:36
Final Kyrgyz election results released
Kyrgyzstan helding it's first Parlimentary Election. People are voting for 120 seats of Parliments. 2.8 million registered voters will vote to 29 Political Parties in Elections.After completition of Elections, Kyrgyzstan will be the first Parlimentary Democratic Nation of Central Asia. After a popular revolt toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev ,Otunbayeva came to power as a President.Kyrgyzstan was burning and clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks killed more than 400 people in June. The United States, embraced the plan to create the first democracy in a region. About 800 election observers will monitor the vote nationwide.
The party that received the most votes in the election is the nationalist Fatherland Party. This group calls for the return of deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev. This was a surprising result in an election held under the auspices of a caretaker government that had driven Bakiyev into exile. The vote won praise as the fairest election ever in the region.
The norm in Kyrgyzstan is vote rigging and intimidation. The result would seem to neutralize the uprising against Bakiyev's government. Before the election calls by Kamchibek Tashiyev the leader of the Fatherland Party for Bakiyev's return led to attacks on the party headquarters. Some members of the caretaker government even called for banning the party.
However, the Fatherland Party got less than 9 per cent of the total vote. Although this gives them 23 per cent of the seats in the parliament it is nowhere near a majority. The party faces the unenviable task of forming a coalition government. Although 29 parties ran only five parties won seats. To obtain a majority the Fatherland party will need an alliance with at least two of the other four parties.
The task may not be easy. The situation has similarities to that in Iraq where the country has sharp divisions and it seems difficult to form a coalition that will embrace all factions. If a weak government emerges a further election might be required before long or alternatively there could be more violent upheavals again.
The situation does not bode all that well for the U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan. The Fatherland Party campaigned against extending the lease past 2011. However a generous increase in lease payments might solve that problem!