Kyrgyzstan

Population Statistics

5,664,939

Total Population

849,741

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

16 May 2019

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


The Code of the Kyrgyz Republic on Elections in the Kyrgyz Republic (1999, last amended ...

Updated: June 2015

Article 3, section 3 states:

Citizens, who were recognized by the court as legally incapable or who are being held in places of confinement, shall not have the right to elect and to be elected. 
 

Excerpt from the Code of the Kyrgyz Republic on Elections in the Kyrgyz Republic (1999, last amended 2007)

Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic (2010)

Updated: June 2015

Article 66, section 2 states:

In the event that the President is unable to carry out his/her duties as a result of illness, the Jogorku Kenesh shall adopt a decision on early dismissal of the President from office based on the conclusion of a state medical commission created by it, with a vote of no less than two thirds of the total number of deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh.

 

Article 73, section 3 states:

In addition to the ground envisaged in paragraph 2 of the present article the powers of the deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh shall be subject to early termination in the following cases:...

  • (7) Absence from the sittings of the Jogorku Kenesh for no good reason for 30 and more working days during one session...

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic (2010)