FORMER KYRGYZ MINISTERS LOSE IN PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION …AS FORMER PROSECUTOR-GENERAL REGAINS LOST SEAT
By empty (11/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Results from a parliamentary by-election in the Tunduk district of northern Bishkek indicated on 28 November that former Foreign Minister Roza Otunbaeva and former Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev were among those defeated by Finance Ministry official Janysh Kudaibergenov. In the southern Aksy district of Kyrgyzstan, Azimbek Beknazarov secured about 89 percent of the vote in a 28 November by-election for a second vacant seat in the Kyrgyz parliament, according to RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service. Beknazarov originally resigned the seat that he won in the February parliamentary elections to become acting prosecutor-general.Visit also
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