Elections to the main legislative body of the country are to be held in Kyrgyzstan on November 28. Lawyer Tattuububu Ergeshbaeva tried to explain why the upcoming elections could undermine the country's security again. She wrote about this on her page on the social network.
After the change of power took place in 2020 due to dishonest parliamentary elections, the new prime minister, and then the elected president of the countries, once again, as happened in recent decades, changed the Constitution.
From the parliamentary republic, Kyrgyzstan returned to the presidential form of government. According to the new basic law of the country, the parliament will again have 90 deputies instead of 120. However, they will have to be elected according to the new system: 54 mandates on party lists and the rest on single-mandate constituencies.
According to Tattuububu Ergeshbaeva, coordinator of the Tandem Law Society, the upcoming elections may again become a reason for disagreements among political groups and a catalyst for instability. She explained why:
1) Money and admin resource will do their job: each mandate in parliament is approximately 35 thousand votes, in 2015 it was on average 18 thousand. Since the number of voters increased by 500 thousand in comparison with 2015, the number deputies were reduced by 30 mandates under the new constitution.
2) The 5% electoral threshold, in fact, the load is 2 times more than in 2015, which can be equated to 10%. This means that the regional threshold of 0.5% will cause barriers for ordinary parties and candidates. We didn't learn from the coup d'état last year.
3) Single-mandate constituencies are conceptually detrimental to elections of a national scale, when deputies come to parliament lobby the interests of these constituencies, which adversely affects the budget and program of the executive branch.
4) The preferential (open) voting system can be improperly adapted in the shortest possible time, which means there is a risk of the quality of implementation in practice.
Following the results of the parliamentary elections, a number of high-quality parties may again be left overboard, failing to overcome the electoral threshold of 5%. This means that the will of many voters will not be taken into account and their candidates will not end up in parliament.
"This means that there is a high probability of resuscitation of the old pernicious politicians and their re-entry into parliament, which is an insignificant factor," Ergeshbaeva notes.
The constitutional law on elections of deputies of parliament was adopted by the people's deputies of the Parliament of the 6th convocation and signed by the President.
The CEC is simply the body that implements the electoral system in accordance with the adopted laws. Deputies of the 6th convocation and the President, in case of poor performance, should be held responsible for the result of the decisions taken and positions on the formation of the parliament of the 7th convocation.
She expressed the hope that the country finally comes to stability. "I would like to believe in the best, and time is the best indicator. I wish our country security and stability," Ergeshbaeva concluded.
Reported by Asiais (Russia).
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The dollar edged down against major peers on Thursday, touching a 10-day low as rising risk appetite put a brake on the safe-haven currency's recent rally, while the Aussie and Kiwi dollars gained. Expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would tighten monetary policy more quickly than previously expected amid an improving economy and surging inflation had fuelled a rise in the greenback since early September. But the dollar reversed course on Wednesday, even after data showed that pricing pressures were still hitting U.S. consumers and the minutes of the Fed's September meeting confirmed the tapering of stimulus is likely to start this year. "It's been a bit of buy the rumour sell the fact," said Vassili Serebriakov, FX and macro strategist at UBS. "The market was quite long dollars and I think we're seeing a little bit of a pullback just based on the market pulling back some of the dollar bullishness," he said. At 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, the dollar index was down 0.036% at 93.982, having touched its lowest level since Oct 4 earlier in the session. On Tuesday, it had reached a one-year high of 94.563. The euro was nearly flat against the greenback, at $1.1593, having hit a nine-day high overnight, while the British pound was up 0.27% against the dollar, at $1.31735. In the short term, risk appetite has improved somewhat in recent days, with concerns around unfavourable growth and inflation easing, and the U.S. equity markets off to a strong start to Thursday's session. That may be adding to the safe-haven dollar's weakness, Serebriakov said. Data on Thursday showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to the lowest level since mid-March 2020. In another report, the Labor Department said its producer price index for final demand rose, but the increase was less than economists polled by Reuters expected, both on a monthly and a year-on-year basis. The Australian dollar, which is seen as a liquid proxy for risk appetite, was up 0.54% versus the dollar at $0.74195, its highest since Sept. 7. The New Zealand dollar also rose, up 0.92% at $0.70285, its highest in 2-1/2 weeks. The dollar's downward trend may be temporary, as the Fed's September meeting minutes also showed that a growing number of policymakers were worried that high inflation could persist. "My expectation is that this dollar weakness will not last and we got back into a longer-term bull trend," said Neil Jones, head of FX sales at Mizuho. Elsewhere, the cryptocurrency bitcoin was down 0.19% at $57,262. Earlier in the session it hit a five-month high of $58,550. A collapse in cryptocurrencies is a "plausible scenario" and rules are needed to regulate the fast-growing sector as a "matter of urgency", Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said on Wednesday. By John McCrank and Elizabeth Howcroft for Reuters. |
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| Date: October 15, 2021; Source: Bloomberg.com |
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Date: October 15, 2021; Source: Bloomberg.com |
| 1 US DOLLAR | USD / KGS | 84,8000 |
| 1 EURO | EUR / KGS | 98,5079 |
| 1 RUSSIAN ROUBLE | RUB / KGS | 1,1813 |
| 1 KAZAKHSTAN TENGE | KZT / KGS | 0,1992 |
Date: October 15, 2021; Source: the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan
|
1 US DOLLAR |
USD / KGS |
84,8000 |
|
1 EURO |
EUR / KGS |
98,5079 |
|
1 RUSSIAN ROUBLE |
RUB / KGS |
1,1813 |
|
1 KAZAKHSTAN TENGE |
KZT / KGS |
0,1992 |
