jalaffa Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Turkmen president wins 97 pct of vote in electionASHGABAT, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov secured five more years as leader of the Central Asian state by winning 97 percent of votes in an election shunned by OSCE observers for a lack of competition, the Central Election Commission said on Monday.Berdymukhamedov, 54, had faced seven token candidates who held no ambition of dislodging the trained dentist as president of a country holding 4 percent of global gas reserves and ranked by rights groups among the most repressive in the world. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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