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Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 20:40
Kyrgyz president says he will ask parliament to vote again on PM
By Reuters
Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 20:40 By Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Kyrgyz counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov in Sochi on Sept 28, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev / SPUTNIK / AFP)

BISHKEK - Kyrgyzstan’s president said on Tuesday he would ask parliament to vote again on the man it has nominated as prime minister after both held talks with a senior official from key ally Russia following unrest in the Central Asian state.

The move could be a formality but, if the vote fails, it could further deepen the political crisis in a strategically located country.

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted last week to name Sadyr Japarov as prime minister after he was freed from prison by supporters during the unrest, but he cannot take office until President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has confirmed his appointment

President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s office gave no details of the talks with Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin administration, but said he had visited Kyrgyzstan on Monday.

Sadyr Japarov, a nationalist politician who has been named prime minister by parliament but has not yet been confirmed in office by Jeenbekov, also attended the meeting, it said.

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Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted last week to name Japarov as prime minister after he was freed from prison by supporters during the unrest, but he cannot take office until Jeenbekov has confirmed his appointment.

In a separate statement, Jeenbekov’s office said he had met Japarov one-on-one and told him he would ask parliament to vote again after some parliamentary deputies and activists criticized Saturday’s decision as illegal because of proxy voting by some deputies.

Kyrgyzstan hosts a Russian military airbase and has close economic ties with Moscow, which dominated the former Soviet republic of 6.5 million for decades.

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Moscow described the situation in Kyrgyzstan as a mess and chaos after street protests broke out over a parliamentary election on Oct. 4 which handed victory to two establishment parties, one of them closely allied with Jeenbekov.

Jeenbekov has halted the protests and clashes by declaring a state of emergency and deploying troops in the capital, Bishkek. But the government has been toppled and the president said last week he was ready to resign once a new prime minister was named.

Parliament tried to convene again on Tuesday but was yet to open its session at 5:30 pm local time (1130 GMT) and it was unclear whether it would assemble a 61-person quorum.

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