Parliament of Kyrgyzstan passes amendments reducing election threshold to 7%

AKIPRESS.COM - The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan passed the amendments to the constitutional law on presidential and parliamentary elections in the third reading.
The amendments reduce the election threshold for political parties in the parliamentary elections from 9% to 7%.
The earlier proposed reduction of the eleciton threshold from 9% to 5% was turned down in the first reading.
The amendments were passed with 98 votes.