The leaders of Kyrgyzstan's five parties to form the Central Asian country's parliament have agreed to a recount of ballots upon the request of the Butun Kyrgyzstan party, which lacked just over one-tenth of one percent to make the 5% barrier, RIA Novosti reported.
On Sunday, 29 parties competed in the election for seats in Kyrgyzstan's 120-member parliament, which will see its powers increase as part of constitutional changes approved in late June in a national referendum that confirmed Roza Otunbayeva as interim president following the ouster of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in April.
"Yesterday, the leaders of the five parties discussed the issue and agreed on a recount," the deputy leader of the Ar-Namys party, Akylbek Zhaparov, told journalists on Wednesday.
The list of the parties is topped by the nationalist Ata-Zhurt party with 8.88% of the vote and the Social Democratic Party (8.04%).
They are followed by the Ar-Namys party of former prime minister Felix Kulov with 7.74% of the vote, the Respublika party, which has not sided with either the interim government or the opposition (7.24%) of the vote, and the pro-constitution Ata-Meken party (5.6%).
The Butun Kyrgyzstan (United Kyrgyzstan) party lacked 0.16% in the ballot count to be represented in parliament.
Sunday's elections were the first step to bring a new system of government to Kyrgyzstan which will consist of a single-chamber parliament that will choose a premier minister by a majority vote. The premier will govern the nation, whereas the president will hold a symbolic role with virtually no powers.