#145: Thoughts

Judging from the pre-election campaigning, it seems that the government will want to have as many small non-opposition parties in the new Parliament as possible. Atameken and Social Democratic Parties regularly attacked by the pro-government media.

The logic is that these harmless parties, even with 1 or 2 seats, will win at the expense of bigger opposition parties. Therefore, smaller parties like People's Voice (ex-MP Bolot Maripov), Aalam (ex-MP Aslam Maliev), Erkindik (Topchubek Turgunaliev), ErK (ex-Ombudsman Tursunbay Bakir uulu), Turan (ex-MP Kanybek Imanaliev) will get just enough votes in percentage to have from 1 to 3 candidates from their party lists in the Parliament.

The assumptions here is that the real elections results are ignored. There might be an agreement between these small parties and the authorities.