Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 7 / Trend V. Zhavoronkova /
If the leader of the Kyrgyz Republic parliamentary faction, Omurbek Babanov, fails to create a parliamentary coalition, which later must form a government, then parliament will be dissolved. This will lead to snap elections, Russian expert on Central Asia Leonid Gusev told Trend.
"If Babanov fails to form a coalition and later a government, then this could lead to parliament's dissolution and snap elections," Gusev, a senior fellow at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Institute of International Studies, wrote Trend in an e-mail.
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva took office after her predecessor President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted in April. She presented Babanov with a mandate to form a coalition of the parliamentary majority on Dec. 4. A referendum earlier this summer resulted in the country's transition to a new system of government.
Today, the country is waiting for a parliamentary coalition. Based on Kyrgyz law, the coalition will form a government, which will then appoint a prime minister. The first opportunity to form a government was given to Social-Democratic Party parliamentary faction leader Almazbek Atambayev. He told the president on Dec. 3 that he would stop trying to form a government.
Gusev added that if parliament dissolved, then the forces opposing the establishment of a parliamentary republic in Kyrgyzstan would gain momentum.
"The paralysis of parliament and its inability to form a government strengthen forces opposing the parliamentary form of government," Gusev said.
A ruling coalition representing a bloc of the Social Democratic, Ata-Meken and Republic parties operated for three days. It then failed to agree on a parliamentary speaker and collapsed.
The main reason for the failure was disagreements within the alliance, he said.
"The responsibility mainly lies on the Republic party," he said. "If we talk about figures, roughly 58 MPs voted for Omurbek Tekebayev and 59 against, compared to the required 61."
Gusev said it is yet unclear how and when the process of governmental formation will end in the republic.
"No one can say what will happen in Kyrgyzstan in the nearest future," he said.