Kyrgyzstan's CEC annuls parliamentary voting returns at 4 polling stations.

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BISHKEK, October 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Kyrgyzstan's Central Election
Commission (CEC) has annulled parliamentary voting results at four ballot
stations outside the republic, a spokesman for the commission told
Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to the spokesman, election results were declared invalid at
polling stations in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan.
"First of all, voting returns at these polling stations were declared
invalid since too many people cast their votes there on additional lists,
and because our citizens there presented foreign passports, which runs
counter to our laws," the spokesman said.
In the mean time, Kyrgyzstan's Central Election Commission is checking
final protocols. For these ends, all original copies of documents have
been brought to Bishkek from all Kyrgyzstan's regions. "It does not mean
that the Central Election Commission is recounting votes. It is verifying
check copies of the protocols," the spokesman noted, adding that if need
be the election commission would recount votes "at some problem polling
stations."
About 56 percent of Kyrgyzstan's 2.85 million eligible voters took
part in the parliamentary elections on October 10. As many as 29 political
parties vied for 120 seats in the national parliament. According to
preliminary information, only five of them managed to overcome the
5-percent barrier, however: Ata-Zhurt, or Native Land, which has won 28
seats, the Social Democratic Party (26 seats), Ar-Namys, or Dignity (25
seats), Respublika (23 seats), and Ata-Meken, or Fatherland (18 seats). In
addition, it is not ruled out that the Butun Kyrgyzstan (United
Kyrgyzstan) party might claim its share of seats in the parliament.
According to the Central Election Commission, the party got only 4.84
percent of the votes, while its leaders claim the party cleared the
5-percent barrier, since about 200,000 people voted on additional lists on
the election day. Butun Kyrgyzstan's leaders have accused the country's
Central Election Commission of being biased, while the party's supporters
have been rallying in protest against the election results.
The official results of the elections in the country have not yet been
announced, and the winner partiers are showing signs of annoyance. The
Ata-Zhurt and Ar-Namys parties have promised to stage mass rallies in
Bishkek if election results are not announced promptly.
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