![]() The next day there were three coordination councils - each one wanting different things - and the opposition parties participating in them often overlapped. Worse, the unity shown by several leaders on October 6 quickly started to fray. The council would, presumably, try to form a new government, since the previous one had crumbled after the protests. The party leaders announced they had formed a Coordination Council that included at least eight of the opposition parties that had competed in the October 4 elections. His party was the only one from the opposition to win seats in the October 4 elections where the vast majority had been won by pro-government parties. Snatching Defeat From The Yurts Of VictoryĮarly on October 6, Butun (United) Kyrgyzstan party leader Adakhan Madumarov was seen with leading figures from other parties. It seemed a prime opportunity for new politicians to enter the scene and hopefully begin a fight against the corruption that had engulfed many parts of society, including the parliamentary elections in which many people's votes apparently were bought or otherwise manipulated.īut the opposition lost its momentum in a fit of disunity and now finds itself in perhaps a worse situation than it was in when the election results were announced. ![]() Many other government officials were also AWOL as a serious power vacuum emerged nationally and in several of Kyrgyzstan's cities and regions. Protests overnight on October 5-6 led to a crowd seizing the parliament building in Bishkek and demonstrators sat at the president's desk drinking tea while President Sooronbai Jeenbekov was nowhere to be found. ![]() ![]() One week ago, Kyrgyzstan's opposition parties were celebrating after their protest of what some called the "dirtiest" parliamentary elections ever forced the Central Election Commission to annul the October 4 results.īut now the opposition is divided and in disarray as their goal of installing a new government with fresh faces has been hijacked. ![]()
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