Democratic experiment in Kyrgyzstan

After Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections on Sunday and the end of its presidential system the country faces a difficult government-building process, writes the daily Delo: "The democratic experiment in Kyrgyzstan has been more or less abandoned to its own fate and its future is uncertain. The main reasons for this lie in the lack of a democratic basis and its long tradition of having a strong presidential figure who although authoritarian also guarantees stability. The Western bearers of democracy either can't or don't want to understand this. Almost as if to spite them it was the nationalist Ata-Zhurt party which wants the amendments to the constitution to be repealed and a return to a strong president that obtained the most votes. This means the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia could be of short duration."

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