Kyrgyz Presidential Election, 2011
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Kyrgyz Presidential Election, 2011
Early presidential elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 30 October 2011 to replace Interim President Roza Otunbayeva. Former Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan won in the first round. Background The election followed the 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots, during which the incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted by protesters and an interim government led by Roza Otunbayeva was formed. An election and reform plan was unveiled on 19 April 2010. Presidential terms Under the new constitution, the presidential term is six years long, but re-election is barred. Date The election date was announced on 22 April 2010; a constitutional referendum to reduce presidential powers and strengthen democracy was held on 27 June 2010. On 19 May 2010, it was announced that the presidential elections would not be held on 10 October 2010 together with parliamentary elections, but rather in October 2011, and that Otunbayeva would remain president until 31 ...
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Almazbek Atambayev (cropped) 2
Almazbek Sharshen uulu Atambayev ( ky, Алмазбек Шаршен уулу Атамбаев, translit=Almazbek Şarşen uulu Atambayev; born 17 September 1956) is a Kyrgyz politician who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1 December 2011 to 24 November 2017. He was Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 17 December 2010 to 1 December 2011, and from 29 March 2007 to 28 November 2007. He served as Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) from 30 July 1999 to 23 September 2011. In August 2019, Atambayev was imprisoned, facing charges of corruption and manslaughter. On 5 October 2020, election protestors freed him from prison. After a failed assassination attempt, however, he was imprisoned again on 10 October. Personal life Almazbek Atambaev was born in 1956 in the Northern region of Chüy. His father, Sharshen Atambayev, was a veteran of World War II (Great Patriotic War) who served with the Red Army on the front lines in Eastern Europe. Atambaev re ...
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Kubatbek Baibolov
Kubatbek Baibolov (born 2 Jan 1952) (russian: Кубатбек Байболов) was an Interior Minister of Kyrgyzstan. He also served as commander of Jalal-Abad. Before becoming a politician, he served as a KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ... colonel and then as a businessman. In 2006 he chaired the constituent assembly responsible for drafting a new constitution References 1952 births Living people KGB Government ministers of Kyrgyzstan {{Kyrgyzstan-bio-stub ...
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Presidential Elections In Kyrgyzstan
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Akbaraly Aitikeev
Akbaraly Aitikeev (born March 9, 1958) was a candidate in Kyrgyzstan's 2005 and 2011 presidential elections. He combines his career as a businessman, with the chairmanship of the Party of Protection A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature ..., which he founded in 1996. In both elections, he received less than 5% of the vote. References Kyrgyzstani politicians 1958 births Living people {{Kyrgyzstan-politician-stub ...
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Arstanbek Abdyldayev
Arstanbek Beishanalievich Abdyldayev, also known as Arstan Alai (born April 28, 1968) is a Kyrgyz politician and businessman, who was one of the candidates in the 2011 presidential election, most famous for his promise that there would be no winter, and the West would suffer from floods. He claims to have received an Ayan (Kyrgyz for "vision of future") from the Cosmos, learning about the "universal energy", "universal program" and the role of the Kyrgyz people in the Universe ("Kyrgyz people are... the inheritors of Mankind's original code", "The nomadic people, the Kyrgyz know the language of Nature", "The Kyrgyz nation will take the role of God and save the universe", "Life on Earth began from the Kyrgyz"). According to his words, he has become the "New God" by receiving "the Soul of God" (also known as the "Divine Energy" and "Universe Energy"). The Kyrgyz people, he says, are the most ancient nation, whose "heroes" and "shamans" (including the characters of the Epic of Manas) ...
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Ar-Namys
Ar-Namys ( ky, Ар-Намыс, meaning ''Dignity'') is a political party in Kyrgyzstan founded on July 9, 1999, by former Prime Minister Felix Kulov. The party quickly became the nation's leading opposition party but was barred from the 2000 parliamentary elections. However, since the party was barred its members formed a bloc with the Democratic Movement of Kyrgyzstan. With Kulov serving time for criminal charges, the party's members worked over the next years to both clear his name and establish a broad opposition coalition. In 2001 the party formed the People's Congress of Kyrgyzstan an electoral alliance with three other opposition parties. Kulov was chosen as the chairman. However, in 2004 the party joined the For Fair Elections For Fair Elections was an electoral alliance formed by four opposition parties in Kyrgyzstan. It was formed on May 20, 2004, in preparation for the February 2005 parliamentary elections. Former Security Council secretary Misir Ashyrkulov was chos ...
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Tursunbai Bakir Uulu
Tursunbai Bakir Uulu (born March 17, 1958 in Kara-Suu, Osh Oblast) is a Kyrgyz politician, former ombudsman and presidential candidate. He is leader of the political party Erkin Kyrgyzstan (ErK). A teacher by training, a historian, and a doctor of philosophy he is married with four children. Biography He graduated at the Kyrgyz National University's history faculty (1982). He also studied in Ukraine. In 1989–95, he was a member of the Association of the Young Historians of Kyrgyzstan. He worked at the Osh State University in the city of Osh in Southern Kyrgyzstan as a teacher (1990–1992). He was first elected in 1995 as a member of the legislative assembly, after he helped set up the Erkin Kyrgyzstan Progressive Democratic Party political party. In 2000 he was given a fresh mandate, and two years later was elected Kyrgyzstan's first Ombudsman. He served in the position until February 2008. Regularly vocal in his opposition to Askar Akayev, the Kyrgyz President ousted on 2 ...
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Butun Kyrgyzstan
United Kyrgyzstan ( ky, Бүтүн Кыргызстан, Bütün Kyrgyzstan) is a nationalist political party in Kyrgyzstan founded in 2010. It is generally more popular in the south of the country. The party is led by Adakhan Madumarov, who unsuccessfully ran for president of Kyrgyzstan in 2011 and 2017, coming second and third, respectively. It holds an ethnic nationalist ideology and supports a presidential system of government. The party was originally created to support Kyrgyz migrant laborers in Russia. The party won its first seats in the Supreme Council in the October 2020 parliamentary election, which was subsequently annulled. The party passed the 3% threshold in the 2021 parliamentary election and therefore is represented in the national legislature. History Initially, the political party was created to support Kyrgyz migrant workers in Russia. United Kyrgyzstan won its first seats in parliament in the 2020 elections, which, however, the party itself did not recogniz ...
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Ata Meken Socialist Party
The Ata-Meken Socialist Party ( ky, Ата-Мекен Социалисттик Партиясы, Ata-Meken Sotsialisttik Partiyası, lit=Fatherland Socialist Party; sometimes shortened to simply Ata-Meken) is a social-democratic political party in Kyrgyzstan. Its current Chairman and founder is Omurbek Tekebayev, who is a former speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament. The party was registered on December 16, 1992, following a split between Tekebayev (as well as more moderate party members) and the conservative Erkin Kyrgyzstan party. Ata-Meken eventually moved into the centre-left of the political spectrum. The party's platform calls for a democratic state, economic reforms and evolutionary social development. It favours reasonable compromise between various social sectors and government bodies. The party supported Tekebayev in the 2000 Presidential elections, where he came second with 14%. On May 20, 2004, the party joined the For Fair Elections For Fair Elections was an electoral all ...
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Omurbek Tekebayev
Omurbek Chirkeshovich Tekebayev (Kyrgyz language, Kyrgyz: Өмүрбек Чиркешович (Чиркеш уулу) Текебаев, ''Ömürbek Çirkeşoviç (Çirkeş uulu) Tekebayev'') is a Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz politician. He was Speaker (politics), Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament from March 2005 to March 2006. Tekebaev is the leader of the Ata-Meken socialist party. Tekebayev is currently serving an eight-year jail sentence for corruption and fraud. Early life Tekebaev was born on 22 December 1958 in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyz SSR. He graduated in physics from the Kyrgyz State University. He then worked as a teacher in Akman Bazar-Korgonskyj, a village in Jalal-Abad Province, and then graduated in law from the Kyrgyz State National University in 1994. Political career Tekebayev was a leading opposition figure to the government of President Askar Akayev, which had ruled Kyrgyzstan since its independence in the early 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Tekebayev ran tw ...
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