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Official results of Kyrgyz presidential elections available (UPDATE)

24 July 2009 [13:34] - TODAY.AZ
The votes of the presidential elections that took place in Kyrgyzstan on July 23 are being counted at the moment.
14:34

Incumbent Kurmanbek Bakiyev had 89.4 percent of votes in Kyrgyzstan's presidential election after a quarter of the votes had been counted, the central election commission said on Friday.

Challenger Almazbek Atambayev, who said Thursday's election was marred by fraud, had 6 percent.

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The count of votes from 310 (30.47 percent) of the polling stations show that incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has won 89.7 percent of votes.

His nearest rival Almazbek Atamabayev won only 5.67 percent of votes.

About 1.13 percent voted against all candidates.

/Interfax, Reuters/
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