Kyrgyz parliament should step up creation of coalition--president

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BISHKEK, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Roza Otunbayeva, president of
Kyrgyzstan for the transitional period, has urged deputies to the new
parliament to speed up the creation of a majority coalition. She spoke
about it in a video address to the nation here on Tuesday.
According to Otunbayeva, she is going to name on November 8 "this or
that party faction," to which the creation of a coalition would be
assigned. "I ask our parties again to create a coalition within the first
15 days of the work of the new parliament," she said.
In her opinion, an official list of 120 deputies to the fifth Kyrgyz
parliament is expected to be issued on November 4. In this case, the
Central Electoral Commission will be able to present certificates to the
MPs on the day after, upon which they will hold their first meeting in the
conference hall of the Supreme Council, Roza Otunbayeva continued. She is
going to address the MPs. Later this week she is going to hold
consultations "with each of the parties, which qualified for the
parliament, on the creation of a coalition."
The parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on October 10, but
final results were made public only on November 1. In between, the Central
Electoral Commission was checking the results of the voting, in which 55
per cent of electors took part. Only five out of 29 political parties
managed to overcome the five per cent barrier: Ata-Zhurt (Native Land),
which will get 28 seats, the Social Democratic Party (26 seats), Ar-Namys
(Dignity, 25 seats), Respublika (23 seats) and Ata-Meken (Fatherland, 18
seats). Since none of the political parties has got the majority in the
parliament, a coalition will have to be formed.
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