Over 80 percent people vote in second tour of parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan
"About 3 million 960,876 people of 4 million 969,547 voters included in the lists of 39 constituencies till 08.00 p.m..
This figure hits 79.7 percent of voters included in the list," the CEC press-service said.
Over 4,200 observers from political parties participated in monitoring over re-voting.
At present, more than 4,000 authorized representatives of political parties that nominated candidates for MPs participate in the process of counting at constituencies.
The Central Election Commission got no information about any serious breaches in the process of re-voting.
"Re-voting was open and transparent. It held by following all the rules of the national electoral legislation on the basis of universally recognized international norms and standards", the CEC press-service said.
It was reported that as a result of the elections held on December 27, 2009, no candidate in 39 of 135 constituencies collected the required number of votes for the elections. In this regard, the CEC decided to hold the second voting in these constituencies on Jan. 10, 2010.
To participate in the elections held in the republic on Dec. 27, 2009, were admitted
About 506 candidates from four parties in the country which competed for 135 seats in the parliament were admitted for participation in the elections held in Uzbekistan on Dec. 27, 2009.
These are representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Milliy Tiklanish, People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan and the Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan Adolat.
According to the electoral legislation, about 15 seats were given to MPs from the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan, elected at a conference of this public organization.
More than 15 million 108,000 people, or 87.8 percent of voters participated in the parliamentary elections held on December 27. About 96 MPs were elected to the lower house of the parliament on 135 constituencies, Trend News reports.
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