IPA CIS International Observers Met With Leadership of Kyrgyz CEC

As part of the short-term monitoring of the snap elections of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic and the referendum to determine the form of the government, the IPA CIS international observers visited the Central Commission on Elections and Referenda of the Kyrgyz Republic.

During the meeting with Chair of the Commission Nurjan Shayldabekova and member of the Commission Tynchtyk Shaynazarov the parties discussed the peculiarities of the current electoral campaign and touched upon such aspects as responding to complaints and preventing violations, campaigning during the pandemic and preparation of polling stations in accordance with the sanitary and epidemiological measures in place.

IPA CIS Observer Team Coordinator, Deputy Chair of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Defense, Chair of the IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Defense and Security Issues Viktor Zavarzin and Deputy Head of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat – Director of the International Institute for Monitoring Democracy Development, Parliamentarianism and Suffrage Protection of Citizens of IPA CIS Member Nations (IPA CIS IIMDD) Ivan Mushket informed the representatives of the Commission on the outcomes of the analysis of the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and the activities taken within the monitoring.

Nurzhan Shayldabekova commended the IPA CIS observers for their work, advice and recommendations, allowing to effectively overcome the difficulties of developing the country’s electoral system. She noted a decrease in the level of violations in the current election campaign due to close cooperation with law enforcement agencies, identifying the reliability and transparency of the activities of all participants in the electoral process as her main priorities.

On the election day, 2,476 polling stations will be opened in the Republic (as well as 48 more outside the country). The IPA CIS observers will carry out monitoring at polling stations in Bishkek, settlements in the regions of the Kyrgyz Republic, at foreign polling stations in Baku, Minsk, Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Dushanbe and Berlin.