Parliamentary Election Successful - Chechen Electoral Chief
Posted on: Sunday, 27 November 2005, 15:00 CST
Excerpt from report by Russian website Kavkazskiy Uzel on 27 November
27 November: "The Chechen parliamentary election can be deemed successful. The upper limit of 25 per cent required for recognizing the election as legitimate was exceeded at 1300 [1000 gmt], the head of the Chechen Central Electoral Commission, Ismail Baykhanov, has told our Kavkazskiy Uzel correspondent. No problems or violations have been registered yet."
According to Baykhanov, the preliminary counting of votes will end by Monday evening, 28 November. "The commission will work all night and I will be in my office all night as well. By Monday evening when we will have processed the ballot papers from all polling stations, including from mountainous districts, we will be able to announce the preliminary results of the election," Baykhanov said. "Ballot-rigging is ruled out because observers, including international ones from Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, are working at all polling stations."
[Passage omitted: Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has said that the parliamentary election in Chechnya can be deemed valid]
Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile
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