{"id":4141,"date":"2020-10-15T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2020-10-15T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T00:29:57","slug":"kyrgyzstan-election-protests-intensify-sadyr-japarov-confirmed-as-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2020\/10\/15\/kyrgyzstan-election-protests-intensify-sadyr-japarov-confirmed-as-new-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan election protests intensify; Sadyr Japarov confirmed as new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/kyrgyz-president-confirms-new-pms-appointment\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/kyrgyz-president-confirms-new-pms-appointment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-54534474\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-54534474<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has been the subject of great internal turmoil and unrest following the parliamentary elections on Oct. 4, the results of which have now been annulled following mass riotous protests against the pro-government results. The capital, Bishkek, is under a state of emergency after protestors seized and looted the presidential and parliamentary buildings. In response, Kutabek Boronov swiftly resigned as Prime Minister. The attempts from the opposition party to dissolve the current government and establish a new one have so far failed, including the recent rejection of their appointed candidate for the next Prime Minister. Instead, majority party member Sadyr Japorov was appointed and officially confirmed as the new Prime Minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Japorov himself is just another complexing piece to the political puzzle. Freed from prison by his supporters following the riots, Japorov and his supporters seem to have emerged as a third major faction in the political chaos, representing the more populist strain of the ruling party. Japorov since being appointed as Prime Minister has called for the immediate resignation of President Jeenbekov, along with new parliamentary and presidential elections. While the President has yet to resign, he concedes that he will eventually resign once order is restored and a new election is possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is, frankly, a monumental mess. Kyrgyzstan, a country of only 6.3 million people, has perhaps suffered the cruellest fate, economically and politically speaking, of any former Soviet state in Central Asia since the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. How exactly this new conflict will resolve itself is yet to be seen, considering just how many fractions are competing in the fray, even within the three main parties involved. It seems the eventual dissolution of the current acting government is inevitable, but whether it will assume the populist form of Japarov or the more social democratic form of the opposition parties is still unknown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/kyrgyz-president-confirms-new-pms-appointment https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-54534474 The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has been the subject of great internal turmoil and unrest following the parliamentary elections on Oct. 4, the results of which have now been annulled following mass riotous protests against the pro-government results. The capital, Bishkek, is under a state of emergency after protestors seized and looted the presidential and parliamentary buildings&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2020\/10\/15\/kyrgyzstan-election-protests-intensify-sadyr-japarov-confirmed-as-new-pm\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}