Otunbayeva ceases party membership after being appointed interim president.

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BISHKEK, May 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Kyrgyzstan's interim president Roza
Otunbayeva has withdrawn from the country's Socio-Democratic Party, the
interim government's press service said on Friday.
Under the recent provisional government's decree appointing Otunbayeva
the country's interim president, the interim president may not be member
of any political party.
"I have also been vested with powers of the republic's prime minister
until a new government is formed," Otunbayeva said in a statement. "The
decree authorises the interim government to organize free, fair and
transparent presidential and parliamentary elections."
The new post obliges the interim president to be politically neutral
and refrain from any activities in support of any political parties,
Otunbayeva reminded. "So, I have to cease my membership of the
Socio-Democratic Party," she said and paid tribute to the party's efforts
to "waken the society, remove Kurmanbek Bakiyev's authoritarian nepotic
regime and bring the country back to the democratic path."
"I will work for the entire people of the republic, ensuring equal
conditions and possibilities for millions of our citizens, male and
female, regardless of their political and other views, or their ethnic
identity," she vowed.
Otunbayeva will be Kyrgyzstan's interim president until December 31,
2011. The June 27 referendum on the republic's new constitution will also
address the issue of confidence vote to Otunbayeva.
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