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Five Parties Share Win in Kyrgyz Election

01 November 2010 20:15 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Election officials in Kyrgyzstan have announced final results from last monthâ€™s elections, with five parties winning seats in the countryâ€™s parliament, APA reports quoting â€œThe Voice of Americaâ€.
The election commission said Monday no party won a majority but that the nationalist Ata-Zhurt was the leading vote-getter of the five political parties that passed the five-percent threshold needed to enter the legislative body.
Ata-Zhurt will now lead talks to form a coalition government. The new government will replace the interim government that has run Kyrgyzstan since a deadly uprising toppled then-President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in April.
Officials had delayed the release of the results in the October 10 vote while election officials investigated charges of irregularities.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday congratulated the Kyrgyz people on the â€œpositive, transparent, and well organizedâ€ elections. He encouraged the timely formation of an inclusive government that will â€œensure peace, stability and security.â€
Just two months after the former president was ousted, riots broke out in June between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan. Hundreds of people were killed and some 400,000 others were displaced.