In a 27 September vote, Kyrgyzstan\'s parliament confirmed 10 of 16 ministers and committee heads proposed by President Kurmanbek Bakiev, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. Lawmakers voted down the candidacies of Roza Otunbaeva for foreign minister, Ishenbai Kadyrbekov for minister of transportation and communications, Toktokan Borombaeva for culture minister, and Alevtina Pronenko for labor and social security minister. Prime Minister Feliks Kulov reacted with surprise, saying, \"It\'s not clear to me why Roza Otunbaeva\'s candidacy was rejected even though she was a leader of the revolution,\" Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. For her part, Otunbaeva told akipress.org that the vote did not surprise her. Noting that she was \"not going to last long in the power relations that emerged,\" Otunbaeva blamed supporters of former President Askar Akaev and opportunists in parliament and the government. She promised to remain active and fight to \"clean up politics.\" (RFE/RL)