Kyrgyz government resigns
BISHKEK. Oct 26 (Interfax) - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has signed an order on the government's resignation due to the breakup of the parliamentary majority coalition, a representative of the presidential press service told Interfax on Wednesday.
The order said the decision had been made "in connection with the official declaration of the loss of parliamentary majority status in Jogorku Kenesh (parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic by the coalition of factions formed under a coalition agreement between factions of the Social Democratic Party, Kyrgyzstan, Onuguu-Progress and Ata Meken dated November 2, 2015, and compliant to Article 65, Part 7 Article 84 of the Kyrgyz constitution, Clause 1 Part 1, Paragraph 2 Part 4 Article 13 of the constitutional law of the Kyrgyz Republic 'On the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic'.
The prime minister and cabinet members were ordered to continue the execution of their duties consistent with their positions until the day of appointment of a new government and heads of administrative agencies.
The order took effect at the moment of its signing.
Majority leader and Kyrgyzstan faction head Kanat Isayev said in parliament in the morning that "following the secession of the Social Democratic Party's faction on October 24 the parliamentary majority coalition lost its status and the agreement signed between the leaders of four factions, the Social Democratic Party, Kyrgyzstan, Onuguu-Progress and Ata Meken, came to a halt."
On October 24, the faction of the pro-presidential Social Democratic Party declared its withdrawal from the majority parliamentary coalition formed between the Social Democratic Party, Kyrgyzstan, Onuguu-Progress and Ata Meken in November 2015. The former coalition comprising factions of the Social Democratic Party, Kyrgyzstan, Onuguu-Progress and Ata-Meken had 80 out of 120 parliament seats, including 38 parliament seats controlled by the Social Democrats.
The Social Democrats explained their withdrawal from the coalition with differences with the partners over the constitutional reform.
The constitutional amendments were initiated in late July 2016 to enhance powers of the prime minister and parliament and to make certain adjustments to operation of the judiciary. Ata-Meken faction leader Omurbek Tekebayev said in summer that he would oppose the constitutional amendments, and Onuguu-Progress faction leader Bakyr Torobayev refused to support some of those amendments as well.
