Kyrgyzstan elects on the national level a head of state –the president –and a legislature. The president is elected for a tenure of single six-year term by the people. The Supreme Council is composed of 120 members filled by proportional representation.
Parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 27 February and 13 March 2005. The belief that the elections had been rigged by the government led to widespread protests,culminating in the Tulip Revolution on 24 March in which President Askar Akayev was overthrown.
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva is a Kyrgyz diplomat and politician who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 7 April 2010 until 1 December 2011,becoming the first female Central Asian head of state. She was sworn in on July 3,2010,after acting as interim leader following the 2010 April Revolution,which led to the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. She previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as head of the parliamentary caucus for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan.
Omurbek Chirkeshovich Tekebayev is a Kyrgyz politician. He was Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament from March 2005 to March 2006. Tekebaev is the leader of the Ata-Meken socialist party. Currently serves as ambassador of Kyrgyz Republic to Federal Republic of Germany.
Early parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 10 October 2010. All 120 seats of the Supreme Council were elected by the party list system. Seats were allocated to all parties who obtained more than 5% of the vote overall and more than 0.5% in each of the nine provinces,capped at 65 seats per party.
Ata-Zhurt is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. Its political base is in the south of the country,but the party is headquartered in the capital Bishkek. The party is led by Kamchybek Tashiyev,and has previously supported the ousted former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Respublika is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. The party was formed in June 2010. Founded by Ömürbek Babanov,he served as its chairman until 2014,and during this time the party had a pro-Russia orientation. In 2014,the party merged with Ata-Zhurt to create Respublika–Ata Zhurt. However,the two parties ended up splitting back in 2020.
Roman Alexandrovich Shin is a deputy in the Jogorku Kenesh,the parliament of Kyrgyzstan,and a member of the Ata-Zhurt party. He is member of the minority Korean ethnic group. Roman Shin has been a Member of Parliament since 2005. Since his reelection to the Jogorku Kenesh in 2010,he sits as a member of Ata-Zhurt (Fatherland) in that body.
Zhantoro Zholdoshevich Satybaldiyev is a Kyrgyz politician who was Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from September 2012 until March 2014.
Bakyt Ergeshevich Torobayev is a Kyrgyz politician who has been the leader of the Onuguu-Progress party since 2013.
Respublika–Ata Zhurt was a Kyrgyz political party that was created after the merger of the Respublika and Ata-Zhurt parties in 2014. However,the two parties ended up splitting apart again in 2020.
United 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.
Aybek Altynbekov is a Kyrgyz politician,and current member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan.
Anvar Artykovich Artykov is a Kyrgyz politician,and current member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan. Artykov served as governor of Osh Region between March and December 2005,and was previously a deputy between 1990 and 2000.
Parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 4 October 2020. The results showed that pro-government parties had won a supermajority of seats. The election was subsequently annulled by the Central Election Commission during the 2020 Kyrgyzstan protests.
Birimdik officially the Party of Democratic Socialism—Eurasian Choice "Birimdik" is a pro-Jeenbekov political party in Kyrgyzstan,founded in 2005 as the Birimdik Democratic Party. On May 8,2013 it was registered with the current name. The party includes many former officials and deputies.
Sadyr Nurğojo uulu Japarov is a Kyrgyz politician who is currently serving as the president of Kyrgyzstan since 28 January 2021. He had previously served as the acting prime minister of Kyrgyzstan in the 2020 interim government following the resignation of President Sooronbay Jeenbekov. Japarov also became acting president of Kyrgyzstan after Jeenbekov's resignation but resigned himself on 14 November 2020 to run for the 2021 presidential election,where he was elected to succeed the acting president Talant Mamytov.
Talant Turdumamatovich Mamytov is a Kyrgyz politician who served as acting President of Kyrgyzstan from 2020 to 2021. He is a member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan and a deputy from the Republic-Ata Zhurt faction. He was elected speaker of the council on November 4,2020 after the resignation of interim President Sadyr Japarov. Due to the vacancy of the Presidency,the speaker of the council became head of state of Kyrgyzstan.
Mekenchil,officially the "Patriotic" Political Party is a national-conservative political party in Kyrgyzstan,which was founded in 2010.
Nurlanbek Turgunbekovich Shakiev is a Kyrgyz politician. He is a member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan and a deputy from the Ata-Zhurt Kyrgyzstan faction.
