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Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Republic Region: Asia & Pacific

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Kurmanbek BAKIEV *
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Igor CHUDINOV
• Assembly: Kyrgyzstan has a unicameral Supreme Council (Jorgorku Kenesh) with 90 seats.

* Electoral system is two-round.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
• In the Supreme Council (Jorgorku Kenesh) 90 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***

*** The electoral system is closed list PR. Parties must clear a threshold of five percent of registered voters nationwide. They they must clear a second threshold of 0.5 percent of all registered voters in each of the country's seven regions, plus the cities Bishkek and Osh.

** After the February 27th elections, the parliament will become a unicameral body with 75 seats.

Population:

• Population: 5,431,747 (July 2009 est.)

Future elections

• Parliamentary - December 2012

Past elections

• Presidential
  First Round - July 23, 2009
• Parliamentary - December 16, 2007
• Referendum - October 21, 2007
• Presidential - July 10, 2005
• Parliamentary
  Second Round - March 13, 2005
• Parliamentary
  First Round - February 27, 2005
• Referendum - February 2, 2003
• Presidential - October 29, 2000
• Parliamentary
  Second Round - March 12, 2000
• Parliamentary
  First Round - February 20, 2000
• Referendum - October 17, 1998

Last Updated on 02/04/2010