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AFPC’s Johan Engval writes on The Fall of Kyrgyzstan’s Parliamentary Experiment and the Rise of Sadyr Japarov

January 21, 2021
Related Categories: Democracy and Governance; Caucasus

"On January 10, voters in Kyrgyzstan went to the polls and elected Sadyr Japarov new president and voted to change the form of government to a presidential system. Although the turnout was a historic low of less than 40 percent, those casting the ballot gave Japarov and his preference for a presidential form of rule resounding support. This spelled the end of the road for Kyrgyzstan’s decade-long experimentation with a parliamentary-style political system, begging the question what went wrong and caused this political turnaround?"

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