Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan
The Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (abbreviation SDPK ; Kyrgyz Кыргызстандын социал-демократиялык партиясы , Russian Социал-демократическая партия Кыргызстана ) is a social democratic political party in the Kyrgyz Republic . With Sooronbai Dscheenbekow as president and Kubatbek Boronow as head of government, politicians of the SDPK currently hold the two most important offices in Kyrgyz politics.
history
The party was founded by party members on October 1, 1993, but was not registered by the Ministry of Justice of Kyrgyzstan until December 16, 1994. In the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan in 1995 , the party became the strongest political party with 14 seats in the Kyrgyz parliament. The first chairman of the party was Abdygany Erkebayev . On July 30, 1999, he was replaced by Almasbek Atambayev .
On May 20, 2004, the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan joined the Ata-Meken party and two other opposition parties in the electoral alliance for fair elections , which stood in opposition to the authoritarian style of government of then President Askar Akayev . In October of the same year the party formed a coalition with the El party in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in February 2005 .
The party played an important role in the tulip revolution after the 2005 parliamentary elections, and it was also involved in mass demonstrations in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in April and November 2006. The party was involved in government from 2007, when the chairman of the SDPK Almasbek Atambayev became prime minister in March. Temir Sariev , who joined the SDPK in 2006 and was a leading member of the party, resigned from the SPDK in protest .
In the parliamentary elections in December 2007, which the presidential party Ak Dschol won, the party received 6.85% of the vote (around 188,585 voters had voted for the party) and 11 seats in parliament. In order not to allow the Ak Dschol party to enter parliament as the only party, the Social Democratic Party, together with the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, was likely to be raised to over 5%. After counting around 95% of the polling stations, the party was still around 3%.
In the following parliamentary elections on October 10, 2010 , the SDPK was able to significantly improve its election result compared to the 2007 election and achieved 14.15% of the votes, a total of 237,634 voters voted for the Social Democrats. With 26 seats, the SDPK moved into the Kyrgyz parliament as the second strongest force behind the national conservative party Ata-Shurt . Through a coalition with the Ata-Shurt and the Respublika party , the SDPK became part of the governing coalition and the social democrat Almasbek Atambayev became the new prime minister. Atambayev and the SDPK achieved another electoral success in the presidential election on October 30, 2011, when Atambayev was elected the new president of Kyrgyzstan with more than 63% of the vote. By participating in the governing coalition and winning the presidential election, the SDPK held a dominant position in Kyrgyz politics after the 2010 parliamentary and 2011 presidential elections.
The SDPK was able to strengthen this position in the course of the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan in 2015 . With just under 436,000 votes and a share of 27.35%, the SDPK became the strongest force in the Kyrgyz parliament and was again able to provide head of government with Sooronbai Dscheenbekow . In the 2017 presidential election, SDPK was also able to defend this office, with former Prime Minister Dscheenbekow becoming the new president with 54.22% of the vote. Compared to the 2011 presidential election and the clear victory of his social-democratic predecessor Atambayev, the number of votes for the SDPK candidate fell by more than 250,000.
After the change of power from Atambayev to Dscheenbekow had initially stoked hopes for a smooth change in the office of president, an increasingly clear power struggle broke out between the two top politicians in the following months. This was carried out in particular within the SDPK, which split in the power struggle between Atambayev and Dscheenbekow. Dscheenbekow imprisoned numerous confidants of the ex-president who were among the leading figures of the SDPK, including the former mayors of the capital Bishkek, Koubanychbek Kulmatow and Albek Ibraimov . Atambayev, meanwhile, publicly criticized the president and sought support from within the SDPK. The conflict reached its preliminary climax in August 2019 when Atambayev was arrested after serious clashes between officials and Atambayev's supporters with more than 80 wounded. The former president is accused of corruption and abuse of office. Despite Atambayev's arrest, he has numerous supporters in the area of the SDPK, who are increasingly being ousted from leadership positions by Dscheenbekov and replaced by confidants of the president.
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supporting documents
- ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the Kyrgyz government ( memento of April 8, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
- ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections (Swedish)
- ↑ Final report of the OSCE on the early parliamentary elections of December 16, 2007 (PDF; 259 kB), April 24, 2008 (English).
- ^ Kyrgyz Parties In Coalition Agreement. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ IFES Election Guide | Elections: Kyrgyz Parliamentary Oct 2010. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Итоги. March 13, 2012, accessed March 9, 2020 .
- ^ Monitors Praise Kyrgyz Elections. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Центризбирком определил результаты выборов Президента Кыргызской Республики 15 октяКря 2017 года - Рода. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Corruption allegations: Kyrgyzstan's ex-President Atambayev arrested after serious riots. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ The old against the new: Power struggle in Kyrgyzstan - derStandard.de. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Bishkek Mayor Detained As Kyrgyz Power Feud Continues. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .