Kyrgyzstan to Spend Much Trouble on Cabinet’s Approval
The parliament of Kyrgyzstan focused on the ministers’ approval yesterday, September 27, 2007. Ten ministers got the go-ahead, six more candidates, including acting foreign minister Roza Otunbaeva, were turned down. The parliament ignored the candidatures of two prime ministers, as even the president and prime minister of the country are unable to agree on them.
The trickiest issue of the yesterday’s authorization was the future of two vice premiers in the Cabinet. Initially, the offices had been eyed by Daniyar Usenov and Adakhan Madumarov, the exisiting vice premiers well-known for their violent opposition to Prime Minister Felix Kulov. At the last moment, however, Kurmanbek Bakiev apparently thought better and revoked nomination, prompted, perhaps, by prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
The whole procedure of the ministers' approval looked at least strange yesterday, said one of the deputies of Kyrgyz parliament. At first, the deputies saw a minister, who requested their sanction. The minister was followed by the president’s staff officials, who asked quite the opposite, promising another minister instead. Some deputies say Kurmanbek Bakiev wouldn’t dare to dismiss the temporarily ministers and put it up to the parliament.
Before the yesterday’s voting, Felix Kulov assured the deputies he backs up all candidates and stands ready to work with them. Of ten ministers authorized Tuesday, nine were working as temporary ministers in Kurmanbek Bakiev’s Cabinet. There are no women in the parliament of Kyrgyzstan. Probably the rejection of all three women-candidates could be blamed on this practice, though Roza Otunbaeva’s fiasco was forecasted even without the sex discrimination excuse, first of all, thanks to her hash statements about the deputies.
Meanwhile, nothing points to some ease of political tension in Kyrgyzstan. March revolution ranger Azimbek Beknazarov, who had been ousted from the prosecutor general’s office recently, was anxious to address a crowd of many thousands September 28, 2005, in an attempt to tell the people, how he had actually fought corrupt practices of political elite. Beknazarov gave up only yesterday, saying the authorities are moving specially trained groups of provocateurs to Bishkek. A new coup d’etat seemed imminent in Bishkek not long ago. Unable to count on the government and beware of a new wave of robbery and pillaging, the local business independently took actions to protect property.
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