Kyrgyzstan's Constitutional Court rules presidential election results legitimate

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KYRGYZSTAN — On July 30, Kyrgyzstan's Constitutional Court ruled that the results of the July 23 presidential election were constitutional. It reached its decision on the basis of electoral documents which, in accordance with the Election Code, were provided to it by the Central Election Committee (CEC).

In so doing, the Constitutional Court rejected a request by Baktybek Beshimov, Kyrgyzstan Social Democratic party deputy, to find the election unconstitutional. It ruled that, "only the CEC has the right to appeal for a decision on the constitutionality of the Kyrgyzstan Republic presidential elections."

In any event, the CEC claimed that appeals from representatives of presidential candidate Almazbek Atambayev and human rights workers were submitted after the deadline. CEC member Lubov Shershkova stated that while there may have been violations at several polling stations, and that documents containing such information would be sent to the General Procurator's office for review, his investigations will have no bearing on the election results themselves.

On July 31, Kyrgyzstan's Public Chamber, which includes leading scholars, political figures and social activists, asked the losing candidates to accept the defeat.

According to the opposition bloc United People’s Movement, however, one opposition candidate received 60 percent of the vote, not the 8 percent in the CEC's final count. His representatives cited massive falsifications of ballots in the election and OSCE observers noted a number of violations which could have had an impact on the election results.

[24.kg, Ferghana.ru, SDPK.kg, CA-News.org]