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Six presidential candidates registered in Turkmenistan 28/12/2006 19:33 MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) - Six candidates for the Turkmen presidency were officially registered Thursday, the Central Asian country's election commission said. Presidential elections will be held in the gas-rich country February 11, following the death of its long-time ruler, Saparmurat Niyazov, of heart failure last week. Acting President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, 49, deputy prime minister since 2001, tops the list of six candidates approved December 26 by the People's Council, the country's main legislative body, and selected out of 11 nominees to run for president. The other contenders, who passed the required threshold of two-thirds of the vote in the People's Council, include Ishankuli Nuryev, deputy minister of the oil and gas industry, Abadan Mayor Orazmurat Karadzhayev, Amanniyaz Atadzhikov, the head of the Dashoguz Region, Mukhammetnazar Kurbanov, the head of the Karabekaul District of the Lepab Region, and Ashirniyaz Pommanov, mayor of the Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi, or Father of the Turkmen, the way Niyazov was referred to in his country. The Turkmen Central Election Commission ordered to establish 65 election districts in the country. Polling stations will be open February 11 from 8 a.m. till 6 p.m. local time. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
