Butun Kyrgyzstan to dispute election results.

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BISKEK, October 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The Butun Kyrgyzstan (United
Kyrgyzstan) Party is going to dispute the results of the parliamentary
elections, held in the republic on Sunday, Adakhan Madumarov, the leader
of the Party, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
In his opinion, his Party overcame the 5 percent barrier during the
voting after getting 145,500 votes. The number of registered electors is
2.85 million "We overcame the barrier with a large margin, but later it
turned out that some 200,000 people had been entered on additional lists,
and for that reason the barrier was higher than 5 percent," Madumarov
said. "So far as other parties are concerned, for them 5 percent was
calculated, proceeding from 2.85 million electors."
He stressed that, according to the Kyrgyz legislation, the number of
the electors, entered on the additional lists, should not exceed 0.5
percent of the number of electors, entered on the main list. During the
parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, however, the figure was about 8
percent.
According to Akylbek Sariyev, president of the Central Electoral
Commission (CEC) of Kyrgyzstan, Butun Kyrgyzstan got 4.84 percent of
votes. He admitted, that those were just preliminary results, which were
not legally valid.
Madumarov assured that Butun Kyrgyzstan would continue to make efforts
for joining the new Kyrgyz parliament. "We shall fight for it, and not
only in court," he promised. According to the latest reports, Butun
Kyrgyzstan sent its lawyers to CEC for analysing the problem.
Sariyev reported here on Tuesday that 198,000 people had taken part
in the voting on the additional lists.
According to preliminary information made public by CEC, five out of
29 political parties overcome the 5 percent barrier during the elections.
These include Ata Zhur (Native Land), the Social Democratic Party, Ar
Namys (Dignity), Respublika and Ata Meken (Fatherland). The difference
between their results ranges from 0.5 to three percent. None of the
parties got an absolute majority in parliament, and they began to discuss
a possibility of forming coalitions with their former rivals. According to
the legislation, the new parliament is to start work within two weeks.
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