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Kyrgyz president's Social Democratic Party leads in parliamentary elections

Xinhua, October 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Kyrgyz Social Democratic Party (SDPK), to which Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev belongs, was in the lead after more than 99 percent of the vote were counted in the quinquennial parliamentary elections, Kyrgyz Central Election Commission said Monday.

Tuigunaaly Abdraimov, head of the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission, said the official results will be announced no later than Oct. 18.

Statistics show that voter turnout amounted to around 1.557 million people, representing 59.7 percent of all registered voters.

According to the official preliminary data, six parties from 14 parties running for the elections overcame the seven percent barrier. Among them, the SDPK got 27.4 percent of the vote, followed by the Respublika Ata-Jurt (literally Fatherland) with 20.01 percent.

In order to take a seat in parliament, parties must obtain at least seven percent of the vote nationwide, and not less than 0.7 percent of the vote in each of the seven regions of the country, as well as in Bishkek, the capital, and Osh, the country's second largest city.

As preliminary data suggested, the SDPK party would takes 38 seats in parliament, followed by Respublika Ata-Jurt with 28 seats.

Kyrgyz President Atambayev voted Sunday morning with his wife at the polling station number 1209, located in the vocational school number 5 in Bishkek.

After casting his ballot, Atambayev said before the elections he did not sleep well, hailing the elections as "truly fair" and the kind he had always dreamed of.

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Temir Sariyev also expressed his satisfaction, saying the elections were well-organized and the social and political situation in Kyrgyzstan was stable.

A new system was installed to automatically read the ballot box to ensure the transparency and fairness of the election.

The Kyrgyz authorities also carried out a campaign to collect voters' biometric data. All citizens had to submit their data and fingerprints to be eligible for the vote.

A total of 2,761,297 people have gained final qualification for voters and more than 55 percent of them participated in the parliamentary elections.

More than 600 international observers supervised the elections, during which no serious violations were found. Endi