Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov

As many as 89.23 percent in Turkmenistan voted for Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov at the presidential elections, announced Murad Karryev, chief of the Central Election Commission of the country. Berdymukhammedov’s closest rival in the presidential race – Amanniyaz Atadzhikov – was supported by less than 4 percent of the voters, while another formal runner, Ishankuli Nuryev, gathered just 2.38 percent during the elections attended by 98.65 percent, i.e. over 2,677,000 voters in Turkmenistan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It looks like the Turkmeni people have elected a new president! And they have an internetcafe!(Dutch) Now all they can long for is free press, free elections, uncensored Internet, freedom of speech and I could go on for a while...