Kyrgyz PM Atambayev set to win presidential poll
October 31st, 2011 - 8:07 am ICT by IANSBishkek, Oct 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The frontrunner in Sunday’s presidential polls in Kyrgyzstan, Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, is set to win the election, gaining over 63 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results.
Sixteen candidates were running in the presidential polls that saw a turnout of just above 60 percent.
A candidate securing over 50 percent of the vote wins the election in the first round.
With over half of the ballots counted, Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission said 55-year-old Atambayev’s main challengers, Kamchibek Tashiyev and Adakhan Madumarov, were gaining nearly 15 percent each.
Critics said the election was marred by fraud.
The figures are expected to be updated by Monday morning.
Interim President Roza Otunbayeva, who took power after Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted as president amid large-scale popular protests in April 2010, did not run in the polls as in line with the new Kyrgyz constitution, the president is elected for one six-year term. She is to leave the presidential post Dec 31.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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