Kyrgyzstan: three parties create majority coalition

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BISHKEK, November 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Three political parties have
signed an agreement on the creation of a parliamentary majority coalition
in Kyrgyzstan, representatives of the press service of the Kyrgyz
parliament told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. According to their information, the
new coalition is made up of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan, the
Respublika Party and Ata-Meken (Fatherland) Party. It has a total of 67
seats in parliament out of 120.
"The structures of the parliament and the government are expected to
be made public at a meeting of the Supreme Council on December 2," they
added. According to the information of the Kyrgyz mass media, the names of
members of the new cabinet of ministers, including the prime minister,
will also be made public on the same day.
The parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on October 10; 29
political parties were vying for 120 seats in the new parliament, but only
five of them managed to overcome the 5 per cent barrier: the Ata-Zhurt
(Native Land) Party (28 seats), the Social Democratic Party (26 seats),
Ar-Namys (25 seats), the Respublika Party (23 seats) and the Ata-Meken
Party (18 seats). Since none of the parties got the majority of votes,
needed for the formation of a majority government, their leaders had to
hold talks on the creation of a coalition.
Several days ago Roza Otunbayeva, president of the transitional
period, assigned Almazbek Atambayev, leader of the Social Democratic
Party, to create a coalition and gave him 15 workdays for that. The time
given to him expires on December 3.
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