There are some serious problems with the way this interrim government is running things. First, it is not up to a small group of people who took power by force --- justified or not --- to take it upon themselves to write a Constitution. They should have left the Constitution alone, and call for elections immediately. If the former President resigned, which he apparently did, then the law should be obayed and the elections for both the President and the Parliament called for immediately. This way, it looks like the usurpers of power are going to take six months to shore up their power without any constraint of the law, change Constituiton to suit their purposes, and then call for election. It would have been more appropriate that the new Parliament tackles the Constitution, not a handfull of people and the armed forces. Another thing that seems to make no sense is setting up controls of how much any party can have in Parliament. That should be nobody's business. If people want to vote for someone, why would anyone deny them the right? Also, the proposal for the election commission calls for the involvement of various foreign reps, --- not a good sign. This usually results in the loss of sovereignty. There are a number of unsettling pieces of news coming from Kyrgizstan. One of the most respected analysts, M.K. Bhadrakumar, just wrote in Asia Times Online, that the drug barons are the power behind this coup. So, while Bakiyev was clearly not democratically oriented, it seems that this group may be even worse. Just when one thinks that things cannot be any worse, they are. The billions of dollars of drugs money from Afghanistan are finding their way into Central Asian reality. Very, very troubling.