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Governing Party Candidate Wins Kyrgyz Presidential Vote

by Associated Press

   MOSCOW --

   Preliminary results from the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan show
   the governing party's candidate winning.
   The RIA-Novosti and Interfax news agencies reported that Kyrgyzstan's
   elections commission said Sunday that Sooronbai Jeenbekov had received
   about 55 percent of the vote, based on a count of ballots from 95
   percent of polling stations
   In second place was Omurbek Babanov, one of the former Soviet central
   Asian republic's richest people. Babanov is the candidate of a party
   that allies nationalist and business-friendly positions.
   Both served as prime ministers under President Almazbek Atambayev. The
   Kyrgyzstan Constitution allows the president to serve only one six-year
   term.
   A total of 11 candidates were on the ballot.