Saturday, 4. February 2012
Topic: POLITIK - on February 4, 2012 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Presidential elections in Turkmenistan – Looking from a different angle
Ashgabat, 4 February 2012 — The presidential elections in Turkmenistan will take place in less than 10 days from now.
Observers and analysts have raised several objections on the whole process:
All the seven candidates running against President Berdymuhamedov are weak and obscure
There is no opposition candidate
The election manifesto of all candidates looks like a weak carbon copy of Berdymuhamedov’s manifesto
These are sham elections; just a way for the sitting administration to stay in power
Superficially, these look like justifiable objections. Let’s examine them one by one.
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