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No media source currently available 0:00 0:03:33 0:00 But while many opposition figures and groups were anxious to claim a role in the victory of having the faulty elections annulled, they were slow to cooperate in forming an alliance to take up the reins of power. A huge power vacuum appeared and a group that did not take part in the October 5 protests came to the fore. That group then also pushed for this presidential election. From Prison To President? There are 17 candidates competing to be president in Kyrgyzstan, the lone Central Asian country where free and democratic elections are held. The favorite to win the vote is Sadyr Japarov, who woke up in a prison cell on October 5 where he was about one-third of the way through a 10-year prison sentence he was serving for hostage-taking during a protest against a mining operation in northeast Kyrgyzstan in October 2013. ....