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A day of silence started Saturday in Kyrgyzstan, one day ahead of local council elections and a constitutional referendum
BISHKEK, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Apr, 2021 ) :A day of silence started Saturday in Kyrgyzstan, one day ahead of local council elections and a constitutional referendum.
Kyrgyzstan s Central Election Commission announced that election campaigning should stop from 8:00 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) for a 24-hour period, prior to Sunday s elections of deputies in 448 local councils.
A constitutional referendum will be held along with local elections. The draft of new constitution proposes a transition to a presidential form of government, establishing the People s Kurultai, a political advisory body, and reducing parliamentary seats from 120 to 90, among other things.
Elections In Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Fail To Satisfy
January 12, 2021 14:06 GMT
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There were expectations that the January 10 elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan would fail to truly reflect the will of the people in those two Central Asian neighbors.
Now that preliminary results are in, they look even worse than feared.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan s vote was its first parliamentary elections since Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev became president nearly two years ago.
Campaigning was barely noticeable, but election officials still claimed that more than 63 percent of voters cast ballots.
Despite Toqaev’s promises of allowing genuine opposition parties to participate in politics, no such parties were registered and allowed on the ballot, though several tried.
Nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov won a landslide victory on Sunday (10 January) in Kyrgyzstan’s snap presidential election, which was triggered by the collapse of the previous government.
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