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Kyrgyz president appears headed for landslide win
But I think we all saw this coming ...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Election officials in Kyrgyzstan said early Friday that partial results from the presidential election give incumbent Kurmanbek Bakiyev an overwhelming lead of around 90 percent of votes counted. The Central Election Commission released the results based on returns from more than one-quarter of the 2,330 polling stations in this mountainous Central Asian nation.

The main opposition candidate, Almazbek Atambayev, has dismissed Thursday's election as fraudulent and called for a rerun. Atambayev claimed widespread ballot-stuffing and the intimidation of opposition election monitors. He also charged that official turnout of nearly 80 percent was inflated.

Atambayev won just over 5 percent of votes counted, according to the election commission's data.
Posted by: Steve White 2009-07-24
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