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).
