Protestors captured the regional administration premises in Kyrgyzstan's southern town of Osh earlier and held a people's gathering (kurultai) in front of the building to "elect the people's governor". The elect was former MP of the republic's parliament Anvar Artykov.
Different sources report that from 2,000 to 5,000 people took part in the event. The election was attended by leader of the Kyrgyz opposition, who had come from Bishkek.
The protestors demanded that the result of the republic's parliamentary elections be cancelled and pressed for resignation of the incumbent government.
Another Kyrgyz southern region elected the people's governor. A kurultai in Jalal Abad, where protestors had kept the regional administration building since March 4, acknowledged Zhusupbek Zheenbekov new governor.
After the republic's parliamentary elections were over, supporters of lost candidates seized the buildings of regional administrations in three of the republic's seven regions, several district administration premises and mayor's offices and blocked some highways.
The Kyrgyz government is in no hurry to take measures against the disturbers.
Bakirdin Subanbekov, the country's Minister of the Interior, arrived in Osh on Saturday to assume control of the region's interior bodies, the Kyrgyz law enforcement authorities were quoted as saying.
The parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, held in two rounds on February 27 and March 13, offered 75 seats to about 400 candidates. Pro-government forces and independent candidates won the absolute majority. President Askar Akayev's son and daughter were among the winners.
