Kyrgyz preliminary results confirm incumbent wins elections

Text of report by the Kyrgyz news agency Kabar on 30th October

Bishkek, 30th October: The incumbent Kyrgyz president, Askar Akayev, has mustered 74.3 per cent of the votes in the presidential elections following the counting of 99 per cent of the votes. The deputy speaker of the parliament, [the leader of the opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) Socialist Party] Omurbek Tekebayev has scored the closest results to Akayev with 13.7 per cent of the votes. Thus, Askar Akayev has been elected the president of the Kyrgyz Republic for a new term of office. The elections were held without any serious incidents, as a whole, and the turnout was 74.4 per cent. The chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Sulayman Imanbayev, has congratulated the Kyrgyz electorate on the election of the country's president and thanked them for their active turnout in the main political event of the year. The Central Electoral Commission is expected to announce the final results of the elections at 1500 [1000 gmt].

Source: Kabar news agency, Bishkek, in Russian 0540 gmt 30 Oct 00

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