Kyrgyz President Announces Coup Attempt



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Kyrgyz President Announces Coup Attempt

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Sooronbai Jeenbekov

The head of state asked opposition leaders to return to the legal field. The opposition aims to achieve his removal.

Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov stated that last night an illegal attempt was made to seize state power. According to him, he ordered the security forces not to open fire, reports on Tuesday, October 6, 24 kg.

Jeenbekov urged the leaders of the protests to return to the legal field, to the compatriots, not to succumb to provocations.

“Last night, some political forces tried to illegally seize state power. Using the election results as a pretext, they violated public order,” he said.

The head of state also suggested that the Central Electoral Commission thoroughly investigate the violations and, if necessary, annul the election results.

Jeenbekov has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday morning with the leaders of the parties that are standing in the parliamentary elections on October 4.

At the same time, the opposition announced that it intends to remove the incumbent president, Interfax reports, citing the representative of the national-patriotic opposition party Chon Kazat (“Long March”) Maksat Mamytkanov.

“We intend to seek the removal of Sooronbai Jeenbekov from office,” Mamtkanov said. According to him, the opposition parties insist on the adoption of a new Kyrgyz Constitution.

“The elections to the Kyrgyz parliament should be held again, but only after the adoption of the new Constitution. The current Central Election Commission should also be removed, we do not trust it. Now we must decide which Constitution we will make. Proposals are coming in – for present the Kurultai institute, “Mamytkanov said. …

He added that to begin with, it is planned to create a coordination council, which will establish a coordination meeting.

It also emerged that former President Almazbek Atambayev, convicted of corruption, was released on Tuesday night from the detention center of the Kyrgyz State National Security Committee, where he had been for more than a year. The media reported that Atambayev was taken by the special services themselves to the protesters who stormed the territory of the State Committee for National Security.

Let us remind you that massive protests began last night in the Kyrgyz capital of disagreement with the results of the last parliamentary elections. The protesters subsequently took over the parliament building, where a fire soon started.

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