In the single-mandate electoral districts of Batken No. 2, Osh No. 7, and Kara-Suu No. 9, elections for deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh are taking place today.
A total of 30 candidates are participating in the elections in the three electoral districts, with only one woman among them. In Batken district, there are 10 candidates, 13 individuals are vying for the mandate in Osh, and Kara-Suu has 7 names on the ballot.
349,798 voters are registered across the three districts, with 112,379 in Batken, 125,386 in Osh, and 112,033 in Kara-Suu. An estimated total of 34,648,000 soms is planned to be spent on the preparation and conduct of the elections.
It is worth noting that parliamentary seats became vacant after reports aired on the television channel "Region TV," owned by the head of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) Kamchybek Tashiev, regarding the connections of certain parliament members with former customs official Raimbek Matraimov. As a result, some of them decided to resign from their mandates.
Specifically mentioned in the reports were Raimbek Matraimov's brother Iskender Matraimov, Aybek Osmonov, Shailoobek Atazov, and the initiator of the foreign agents bill, Nadir Narmatov. Respondents highlighted that these Jogorku Kenesh members should either voluntarily relinquish their parliamentary powers or be stripped of their mandates.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) first prematurely terminated the powers of the "Ata Jurt Kyrgyzstan" faction member Abdibakhaba Boronbaev, who had previously headed the Southwest Customs before entering parliament. The mandate was then passed on to the next candidate on the party's pre-election list, businessman Saidbek Zulpuev.
Subsequently, based on submitted statements of mandate renunciation, the CEC prematurely ended the mandates of Jogorku Kenesh deputies Iskender Matraimov, Nurlan Rajabaliyev, and Aybek Osmonov. Since they entered parliament from single-mandate districts, by presidential decrees, early elections were appointed in those districts.
