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| Doubt cast on Kyrgyz poll result | Doubt cast on Kyrgyz poll result |
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| The outcome of Kyrgyzstan's election has been thrown into doubt after the country's Supreme Court moved to overturn a controversial election law. | The outcome of Kyrgyzstan's election has been thrown into doubt after the country's Supreme Court moved to overturn a controversial election law. |
| Under rules introduced by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a party can gain a seat in parliament only if it polls at least 0.5% of the vote in every region. | Under rules introduced by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a party can gain a seat in parliament only if it polls at least 0.5% of the vote in every region. |
| Mr Bakiyev's Ak Zhol party won every seat after Sunday's election because no other party fulfilled the criteria. | Mr Bakiyev's Ak Zhol party won every seat after Sunday's election because no other party fulfilled the criteria. |
| But the courts have annulled the law, so other parties may now win seats. | But the courts have annulled the law, so other parties may now win seats. |
| Mr Bakiyev introduced a new constitution in October, installing a proportional representation system for electing MPs. | |
| In order to gain seats in parliament under this system, a party had to win 0.5% of the vote in each of Kyrgyzstan's seven regions and its two main cities - as well as polling more than 5% of the vote nationally. | |
| Other than Ak Zhol, the Ata Meken party was the only one to win more than 5% of the vote nationally, but it failed to gain 0.5% in all of the regions - thereby disqualifying it from parliament. | |
| Ak Zhol lodged an appeal against the rule about regional votes before the election - in a move analysts suggest was aimed at preventing post-election disputes. | |
| "The Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan has satisfied the appeal by the Ak Zhol party on cancelling the regional threshold of 0.5% for parties to enter parliament," said Judge Kurmanbek Osmonov. | |
| "The court's decision comes into force immediately, is final and is not subject to appeal," AFP news agency quoted the judge as saying. | |
| Traditionally, Kyrgyzstan has been regarded as having one of the most open political systems among Central Asia's former Soviet republics. | |
| But Sunday's poll was criticised by international observers, who cited problems including a lack of transparency in vote-counting and deregistration of leading candidates. |