BISHKEK, October 4th – RIA Novosti, Yulia Orlova. The parliamentary elections will be held on Sunday in Kyrgyzstan: virtually all the political forces participating in the race, show voters a pro-Russian and proevraziyskuyu orientation, say political experts, analyzing the electoral process in the country.
New rules
The Jogorku Kenesh (unicameral parliament) of Kyrgyzstan is elected for five years by a proportional system. After the coup d’etat and overthrow the corrupt regime of ex-President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in 2010, Kyrgyzstan has changed the constitution and became a parliamentary republic in which the parliamentary majority coalition forms a part of the Cabinet and appoints the prime minister.
Just six months before the election, incumbent Kyrgyz parliament He made a number of major changes to the electoral laws of the country. According to which the voters list may be included only citizens of the pre-past biometric registration. On election day, they will be able to cast a vote only after comparison of fingerprints to the existing database of biometric information.In addition, it is absolutely all polling stations in the country are set to automatically read the urn. According to the authors innovation aimed at ensuring the principle of “one voter – one vote” and would eliminate the human factor when counting the ballots. Electronic boxes themselves recover data on voting results to the server of the CEC of the country at the time the polls closed.
As an additional control of election commissions should be counted and the ballots manually. The Prime Minister promised that in those areas, which will be revealed serious discrepancies between the electronic and manual counting of the voting results will be canceled.
“If need be, the ballots will be converted ten times . In areas where there are documented violations during the vote will be a by-election, “- said Sariev.
Distressed lists
According to the Government, the biometric data the country passed more than 2 million 750 thousand citizens who are able to take part in the vote. Whereas in the 2010 parliamentary elections in the voters list, there were more than 2 million 850 thousand people.
The introduction of biometric lists, in addition to combating fraud, will allow citizens to vote is not at his residence in the passport and the place of actual residence. In the southern and the northern capital of Kyrgyzstan (Osh and Bishkek) are open 46 additional sites for internal migrants who wish to vote at their place of actual residence, not according to the Passport registration.
Another 36 sites in 26 countries around the world. The largest number of sites – six – opened on the territory of the Russian Federation. Three polling stations were opened in Germany – in Berlin, Bonn and Frankfurt. Two – in Kazakhstan, China and Turkey. In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, USA, Pakistan, Switzerland, Japan, Ukraine and other countries – on one site. The smallest portion – at the Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in Iran, where only two registered voters. Total in the parliamentary elections on October 4 will operate 2374 polling stations.According to the new electoral legislation stations abroad can operate only on the territory of diplomatic missions – embassies, consulates, offices and so on. The voting abroad will take part citizens biometric registration and the last being on the consular register. Such outside Kyrgyzstan has registered about 15,000.
Better luck is not everything
In the last parliamentary elections for seats in the legislature Kyrgyzstan fought for more than 80 political parties. This year, their applications for participation in the CEC filed 34 political parties of Kyrgyzstan, but nearly a third of them began to open special accounts in the bank, should be transferred from the electoral deposit in the amount of 5 million soms (about $ 82 thousand). Thus, in the parliamentary race were only 14 fairly large political forces of the country. These lists about 2500 candidates that will compete for 120 seats.
According to the legislation in parliament will get the party that received the support of at least 7% of voters who participated in voting, and at least 0.7% votes in each region of the country. According to experts, to overcome just two electoral barrier will no more than four or five parties. Among them is called the Social Democratic Party, created 23 years ago acting President Almazbek Atambayev and presented in the current convocation of the Jogorku Kenesh of the socialist party “Ata-Meken” under the guidance of an experienced politician Omurbek Tekebayev and the tandem of the parliamentary opposition parties, “Republic – Ata Jurt. ” Among the “new” political forces that have a real chance to enter the top five winners, often called the party “Bir Bol” (“Unity”), “Onuguu Progress” and “Butun Kyrgyzstan Emgek.”The course – on Russia
Experts point out that all the parties of Kyrgyzstan participating in the race, regardless of their ideological and political programs in pursuit of the support of voters eager to declare the pro-Russian and proevraziyskuyu orientation.
“pro-Russian tend to look most of the political parties. They are aware that the population in the majority supports the policy of the Kremlin. This includes talking about it, and those who formerly prided ties with the West,” – said the executive director Russian Political Science Center “North – South” Yulia Yakusheva
According to her, a focus on the United States among Kyrgyz politicians “now has lost its former popularity.” Now, due to the US are more compromising. She noted the policy all the time mindful of over half a million migrants from Kyrgyzstan working in Russia, so among them “no one would be served with a bright anti-Russian rhetoric.” “Another thing is how this pro-Russian rhetoric will remain just a pre-election position after October 4,” – said Yakushev.
The observers also record that is traditional for the elections of the past years in the country, “the level of black PR significantly decreased.” “All political forces in Kyrgyzstan have adopted the rules of the game, from the mechanisms of the electoral process, which have become more transparent and democratic, and ending with the more civilized competitive struggle”, – stated in the study conducted by experts of Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
Safety – in the first place
The CEC of Kyrgyzstan noted that in the course of the current electoral process in Kyrgyzstan will follow 613 observers from 69 countries, including the delegation of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and the CIS, SCO and others.
Lighting electoral process in the country hundreds of accredited representatives of the world media. The republic’s authorities have repeatedly stated that the priority of this election should be full transparency and compliance with democratic values.
The law enforcement bodies of Kyrgyzstan are also preparing for the security and tranquility in the country during the parliamentary race in the post-election period. Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Abdyrakhman Mamataliev said that during the elections, “nobody will be allowed to dictate its conditions to put pressure on election commissions, to disrupt the work of the polling stations. Therefore, I am convinced that after the elections there will be no grounds for organizing the protests, and the more some of disorder “.
However, all security and law enforcement agencies of the republic have been translated into high alert. Prime Minister Temir Sariev put in front of all the law enforcement bodies of the country task – to interact with each other, to work in an elevated degree of readiness, to ensure order and security on election day. The country has stepped up anti-terrorist protection of strategically important objects, as well as work on border control in order to identify members of terrorist and religious extremist organizations.
A special attention is paid to ensuring the security of information resources, the Central Election Commission of the country. The State Committee of National Security of the country declared to take special measures to prevent hacker attacks and possible fraud on the part of participants in the electoral process.
Websites of government agencies of Kyrgyzstan are regularly subjected to attacks by hackers. The most scandalous was hacking the official website of the Central Election Commission of the Republic, which occurred in less than two days before the parliamentary elections in 2007.
In addition, security at polling stations on election day will provide 9,000 police officers and more than 8000 people’s militia.
The Kyrgyz authorities are hoping that the first in Central Asia, the elections with the latest technology, which have been spent in excess of $ 20 million, will enable the country to maintain stability and ensure the democratic development.
In addition, the CEC of Kyrgyzstan recalled that the disclosure of the results of surveys of voters leaving the polling stations, the so-called exit-poll, election day is considered as a violation of the electoral law.
“According to the Constitutional Law on Elections exit-poll, a public opinion survey related to elections, is a kind of voter information. Conducting data collection on the day of the vote is not contrary to the law, however, the publication of their results is possible only on the day after the elections, “- said the official.
The CEC of Kyrgyzstan explained that the publication of data exit-poll on election day will be considered illegal campaigning and involves “responsibility in accordance with the law”.
According to the law on elections in the last 5 calendar days before the voting day as well as the voting day media coverage of the results of public opinion polls, forecasts of election results, other studies related to the election, are not allowed. On Saturday at 8 am (5 MSK) 24 hours before the opening of polling stations in Kyrgyzstan began “day of silence”. All parties must cease active campaigning meetings with voters, and the media coverage of the electoral rolls and publications.
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