Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2005
The 2005 parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan took place in two rounds of voting - on February 27 and March 13 - take place. About 400 candidates competed for the then 75 seats in the unicameral parliament Zhogorku Kenesh.
In the aftermath of the election there, as in Georgia and Ukraine, to a revolution, President Askar Akayev who eventually forced to resign. The operations are referred to as the Tulip Revolution, after the symbol of the opposition, the mountain tulip. So subtitled Russian newspapers at the very beginning of the events.
Unrest before the election
In the weeks before the elections saw the first protests across the country, because candidates were rejected by the courts. Of the original more than 400 candidates were admitted shortly before the ballots still 390.
Results
69 seats went to candidates of the ruling. Only 6 seats fell to the opposition.
In its reports of 28 February and 20 May 2005, the OSCE noted that the elections had not complied with the international standards.
Post-election unrest
The popular protests began after the announcement of election results, especially in the western and southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. On March 18, demonstrators stormed government buildings in the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, in the Toktogul Provinzgouvernor and a prosecutor of demonstrators were arrested.
In the early hours of March 20 police forces tried to retake the building. Several protesters and a policeman were injured, temporarily detained hundreds of civilians. A nearby police station in Jalalabad was devastated by protesters. On March 21, a regional administration building, a police and a TV station and the airport of Osh were stormed by about 1,000 protesters, one day later is similar happened in Pulgon.
In Bishkek demonstrated on 23 March for the first time hundreds, but were immediately dispersed by the police. Among the prisoners there were temporarily opposition journalists, students, NGO representatives and members of the revolutionary youth movement Kelkel. Other cities came under control of the opposition.
President Akayev ordered a review of the election results in the unrest regions by the Central Election Commission and dismissed on March 23, Minister of the Interior and the Attorney General. On March 24, demonstrators stormed the government building in the capital. President Akayev resigned as Prime Minister Nikolai Tanajew. On the evening of March 24 Ischenbai Kadyrbekow was elected by the upper house of the old Parliament for transitional president, but then not confirmed by the House of Commons. On the morning of 25 March, the former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev stated that he had been elected as acting heads of state and head of government. Within the next few days then the new parliament has been recognized, and both houses of the old dissolved.
Effects
Meanwhile, Bakiyev appointed ministers in his government. Felix Kulow, only freed on 24 March from prison and appointed safety coordinator, has appeared five days later from this post and announced his candidacy for the next presidential elections. The Supreme Constitutional Court said Akayev - who had fled across Kazakhstan to Moscow, where Vladimir Putin granted him asylum - all rights as president from. On April 4, Akayev signed in the Kyrgyz Embassy in Moscow his resignation, and the Kyrgyz parliament ratified this on April 11, after it had withdrawn a number of privileges Akayev and his family, who had been zugeschanzt them in recent years. New presidential elections were scheduled for 10 July. This won Bakiyev, after he had agreed with Kulow on a power-sharing. Kulow was established in August head of government. A new presidential party called Ak Dschol was founded by Bakiyev.