Sooronbai Dscheenbekow

Sooronbai Dscheenbekow

Sooronbai Scharipowitsch Dscheenbekow ( Kyrgyz Сооронбай Шарипович Жээнбеков even Scheenbekow and English Sooronbay Jeenbekov transcribed; * 16th November 1958 in Telman (now Bii-Myrsa ), Osh Region , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Kyrgyz politician. He was Prime Minister from 2016-17 and was elected as the new President on October 15, 2017.

Life

After graduating from a middle school in Ösgön district , Sooronbai Dscheenbekow studied from 1977 at the Kyrgyz Institute of Agriculture called Skrjabin ( Кыргызский сельскохозяйственный институт им. К.И.Скрябинаина.К.И.Скрябина ). In 1983 he completed his studies with a focus on zootechnics (study of the methods of (farm) animal husbandry) and accounting. From 1983 to 1988 he was the head zoo technician of a collective farm in the Osh region .

Start of political career

From 1988 Dscheenbekow was also politically active for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . From 1989 to 1991 he was secretary of the party committee of a sovkhoz . In the following years he worked as a director in large farms in his home region.

In 1995, Dscheenbekow was elected as a member of the People's Assembly ( El Okuldor Jyiyny ). Since 1996 he has held various posts in the Jogorku Kengesch , the Kyrgyz parliament. From 1996 to 2000 he was member of the committee for agricultural issues, deputy chairman and chairman, from 2000 to 2005 deputy of the Toraga ( speaker ), from 2005 to 2006 as member and chairman of the committee for agribusiness and ecology and from 2006 to 2007 Chairman of the Agricultural Policy Committee.

Government offices

From May to December 2007, Dscheenbekow was Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Manufacturing of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. After two years as a private entrepreneur, he held the post of governor of the Osh Oblast from April 2010 to August 2012. Subsequently, Dscheenbekow became the authorized representative of the Kyrgyz government in the Osh region until December 2015. After four months as Director of State Human Resources, Dscheenbekov was appointed Deputy Director of the President's Administration in March 2016.

Following the resignation of the previously incumbent Prime Minister Temir Sarijew in April 2016, Dscheenbekow was elected the new Prime Minister on April 16, 2016 with 113 out of 115 parliamentary votes. Dscheenbekow had previously been nominated by the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) of President Almasbek Atambayev .

In the wake of tensions over a planned constitutional referendum, the SDPK left the governing coalition on October 24, 2016. The cabinet led by Dscheenbekow was dissolved two days later by President Almasbek Atambayev.

In the 2017 presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan on October 15, 2017, Dscheenbekow was elected as the successor to President Almasbek Atambayev . He took office on November 24, 2017.

Term of office as President

After taking office in November 2017, Dscheenbekow made inaugural visits to Kyrgyzstan's neighboring countries in the weeks that followed. A meeting with top European politicians in Brussels followed on April 11 and 12, 2018. In doing so, Dscheenbekow sought to intensify cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and the EU. To this end, he met with the then High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini as well as with Donald Tusk , Jean-Claude Juncker and Antonio Tajani . He emphasized that he wanted to stand up for democracy and freedom of the media and expression in Kyrgyzstan.

During the course of Dscheenbekov's tenure, a power struggle developed between the incumbent president and his predecessor Atambayev. Atambayev developed into one of the vocal critics of Dscheenbekow and has had numerous supporters in the country even after the end of his presidency. On March 31, 2018, Atambayev was elected chairman of the Kyrgyzstan Social Democratic Party , of which Dscheenbekov is a member. The ex-president combined his election with criticism of Dscheenbekov's administration and thus fueled the party's power struggle. Dscheenbekov responded by dismissing politicians who are considered friendly at Atambayev, including the former mayor of Bishkek, Koubanychbek Kulmatov . In addition, atambayev's political immunity was lifted by the Kyrgyz parliament on the basis of a case about the release of a nationally known criminal . On August 7, 2019, the former president was supposed to be arrested by security forces in his property, but they were repulsed by Atambayev's supporters. After further fighting, the security forces succeeded in arresting Atambayev on August 8, 2019. Dscheenbekow accused his predecessor of violating laws, including armed resistance to the implementation of investigative measures. Due to the dispute, Dscheenbekow interrupted his vacation and called his cabinet to a special meeting.

Web links

• Biography on the President's website. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (Russian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} biography on the President's website. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (Russian). 
2. ↑ Kyrgyzstan: Soronbay Jeenbekov is new PM , Novastan.org, April 16, 2016 Retrieved on November 21, 2016
3. ↑ Daniel Wechlin: But Repeated government crisis in Kyrgyzstan , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 26, 2016 Retrieved on November 21, 2016
4. ^ Ex-head of government wins election in Kyrgyzstan . In: euronews . October 15, 2017 ( euronews.com [accessed November 5, 2017]).
5. ↑ erudolph: Kyrgyzstan: State visit of Sooronbai Dscheenbekow in Brussels. In: Novastan German. April 30, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2019 (German). 
6. ^ Kyrgyzstan: Ex-President Atambayev returns to politics. In: Novastan German. April 1, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2019 (German). 
7. ^ The editors: Kyrgyzstan: conflict between president and predecessor escalates. In: Novastan German. August 8, 2019, accessed on August 9, 2019 (German).