Presidential election in Kyrgyzstan 1991

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Election winner and first President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev (2001)

The 1991 presidential election in Kyrgyzstan was held on October 12, 1991 . The election winner Askar Akayev became the first president of independent Kyrgyzstan after the election .

background

In October 1990, the former head of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, Askar Akayev, became president of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic . Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Kyrgyzstan's declaration of independence on August 31, 1991, Akayev remained the country's leading politician. He resigned from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and stood for the first presidential election in the history of Kyrgyzstan on October 12, 1991 as an independent candidate. There was no opponent in the election.

Result

Akayev was elected President of independent Kyrgyzstan with 95.33% of the vote. Since then there has not been a clearer victory in the Kyrgyz presidential election. The turnout was 89% and more than two million votes were cast.

consequences

Akayev remained the strongest figure in Kyrgyz politics in the years after independence as President of Kyrgyzstan. After another election victory in 1995, he was only able to run for a third time in 2000 through a constitutional amendment and was re-elected. It was not until the tulip revolution in March 2005 that his increasingly authoritarian presidency ended.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ National Democratic Institute (ed.): Statement of the NDI Pre-Election Delegation to Kyrgyzstan . Bishkek 2000.
  3. ↑ Julia KOSTENKO: Election of President of Kyrgyzstan. 22 facts you could forget. September 15, 2017, accessed March 17, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Refworld | Chronology for Russians in Kyrgyzstan. Retrieved March 17, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume I . Oxford University Press.
  6. ↑ TENSIONS RISING AHEAD OF KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Retrieved March 17, 2020 (American English).