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Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation on October 15. Under the country’s law, presidential elections must be held within three months after the termination of the powers of the head of state.
The early presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan will be held on January 10, 2021. This decision was made at a meeting of the country’s Central Election Commission, reports 24.kg.
As noted in the CEC, according to the law, if parliament does not call early presidential elections within a week after the termination of the powers of the head of state, they are considered officially scheduled the day after this period.
After that, the electoral commission officially publishes the date of the elections within two days. Kyrgyz law stipulates that they must be held within three months after the termination of the powers of the head of state, until January 16, 2021, the electoral committee stressed. And since elections are usually held on a day off, the proposed date was January 10.
Protests broke out in Bishkek after the October 4 parliamentary elections. The protesters demanded the annulment of the voting results, according to which the political parties Birimdik (received 24.5% of the votes), Mekenim Kyrgyzstan (23.88%), Kyrgyzstan (8.76%) and Butun Kyrgyzstan entered parliament. (7.13%), and the opposition political forces did not overcome the 7% barrier.
On the night of October 6, the protesters took over the parliament building in Bishkek. According to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health, more than a thousand people were injured during the clashes, one died.
Speaker of parliament resigned amid massive street protests on October 6 Kyrgyzstan Dastan Dzhumabekov and Prime Minister Kubatbek Boronov. On October 7, the parliamentary opposition started the impeachment proceedings against the president.
The country’s Central Electoral Commission has declared the election results invalid.
On October 14, Kyrgyz parliamentarians in a parliamentary meeting by majority approved the founder of the opposition Mekenchil party, Sadyr Japarov, as prime minister.
Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed a decree on the appointment of the country’s prime minister and members of the government, and on October 15 announced his decision to resign. And about. Japarov became president.
Several elections to the Kyrgyz parliament have been scheduled for December 20.
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