Kyrgyzstan's fragile ruling coalition collapsed today, just a day after the new president took office.
Social Democratic Party faction leader Chynybay Tursunbekov said his party had decided to pull out of the coalition formed after last October’s election because of disagreements on judicial, political and economic reforms.
“The right thing to do is for the president of Kyrgyzstan to give Social Democratic Party faction a mandate to form a new coalition,” Mr Tursunbekov claimed.
President Almazbek Atambayev was only inaugurated as president yesterday.
He is expected to charge parliament with forming a new coalition in the coming days.
Kyrgyzstan’s fate is of interest to both Russia and the US.
The former Soviet nation on China’s western border hosts a US air base crucial to its operations in nearby Afghanistan. Russia also controls an air base outside the capital.
President Atambayev is likely to favour inclusion of the Social Democratic Party, of which he used to be the leader, in any new coalition.
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