By empty (2/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz parliament failed to elect a new speaker on Tuesday. \"None of the four proposed candidates got the required 38% of votes in three rounds of voting,\" an Interfax correspondent reported. Former Speaker Omurbek Tekebayev earlier resigned.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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