⁍ Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted on Friday to end a state of emergency imposed by its ousted president.
⁍ Interim Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov, a Kyrgyz nationalist, took temporary control of the presidency of one of Russia’s close allies.
⁍ Former President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, who resigned on Thursday, ordered troops to be deployed in Bishkek last week.
– Ousted President Sooronbai Jeenbekov ended a state of emergency in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan on Friday, a move that will allow the country to return to normal. Jeenbekov had declared the state of emergency last week after the country’s parliament elected a former presidential adviser and member of parliament, Sadyr Japarov, as the country’s interim president. Japarov, who had been in prison since last year on charges of kidnapping, was quickly elected prime minister by parliament, which also voted to end the state of emergency, Reuters reports. The vote to end the state of emergency came after the speaker of the parliament rejected Japarov’s appointment as prime minister. “This is an unprecedented case in Kyrgyzstan’s history,” parliament deputy Omurbek Tekebayev said. “Such tremendous powers in the hands of one man.” Japarov has said Russia will remain a key strategic partner of Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia with significant ethnic Russian and Uzbek minorities, and he had no plans to review the terms of Russia’s Kyrgyz air base. Kyrgyzstan, which borders China and hosts a large Canadian-owned gold mining operation, has seen three presidents, including Jeenbekov, toppled by popular uprisings over the last 15 years.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kyrgyzstan-protests/kyrgyzstan-ends-state-of-emergency-as-nationalist-consolidates-power-idUSKBN2710LO