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Poses after controversial parliamentary elections in the Central Asian Kyrgyz Republic President Sooronbay Dscheenbekow is in annulment prospect. His spokesman Tolgonaj Stamaliyeva said that he had asked the electoral leadership to review the results. Dscheenbekow is trying to restore peace to the country. Therefore, Dscheenbekow asked all forces to reason.
At the same time, the head of state accused the opposition of attempting an illegal seizure of power. The political forces took the election results as an opportunity to generate unrest in the country, he said in a speech to the population published on Tuesday. “They beat the doctors and damaged buildings.” Jenbekov said he waived an order to shoot to avoid bloodshed.
Several opposition parties did not recognize the results of Sunday’s elections. On Monday night there were serious disturbances in the capital, Bishkek, with hundreds injured and one dead. Almost 600 people were injured, the Health Ministry announced Tuesday.
The Kyrgyz media reported that protesters had occupied several public buildings, including the government headquarters and the mayor’s office in Bishkek. They also released several politicians from prison, including former President Almasbek Atambayev, as reported by the Kyrgyz news agency Akipress.
Entrepreneurs fear looting
After the revolutions of the past, Kyrgyzstan with its more than six million inhabitants is now a parliamentary-presidential republic. After the fall of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in 2010, democratic politician Rosa Otunbajewa assumed leadership in the country. She was the first woman at the top and by then had implemented unprecedented democratic reforms in the region, which is characterized by authoritarian heads of state. The role of Parliament has also been strengthened.
But in the completely impoverished state in which Russia still has influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, there are repeated outbreaks of violence. Businessmen feared looting, as in the protests in 2005 and 2010. Many merchants have removed goods from their stores, eyewitnesses reported. Telephone and internet access in Bishkek partially collapsed on Tuesday night.
The major opposition parties Bir Bol and Ata Meken failed in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, according to the central electoral commission, at the seven percent hurdle. They accused Scheenbekow of electoral fraud and called a protest. President Scheenbekow described the protests, some of which were violent, as an attempt by some opponents to take power illegally.
