Tag: #VoteBuying
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Kyrgyz go to polls as vote-buying fears rise
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Oct 4 (AFP/APP):Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls to choose a new parliament Sunday with electors and smaller parties afraid vote buying will spoil a rare competitive election in former Soviet Central Asia. Surrounded by authoritarian states with rubber-stamp legislatures, elections in mountainous Kyrgyzstan offer a colourful and sometimes unpredictable contrast. Yet with the…