Landmark Election in Kyrgyzstan
Following a coup, bitter ethnic violence and skyrocketing food prices, Kyrgyzstan managed to hold a peaceful landmark election on Sunday that may very well establish the beleaguered country as the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia.
Following a coup, bitter ethnic violence and skyrocketing food prices, Kyrgyzstan managed to hold a peaceful landmark election on Sunday that may well establish the beleaguered country as the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia. –JCL
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...The Guardian:
International observers today described the election as largely free and fair – a remarkable feat in a region run by democracy-averse super-presidents all apparently in the job for life.
In an address to the nation yesterday, Kyrgyzstan’s interim president, Rosa Otunbayeva, called it a “new page” in Kyrgyzstan’s 20-year history. “We are not just choosing a new parliament. We’re ushering in a new system of government – a parliamentary republic,” she said.
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