The campaigning period in the country will kick off on December 15
BISHKEK, December 12. /TASS/. Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Saturday it had registered 18 candidates for the next year’s presidential election. A total of 18 candidates to the post of the president of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan were registered by the Central Election Commission, the election authority said.
Among them are the leader of Kyrgyzstan s opposition Butun (United) Kyrgyzstan party Adakhan Madumarov, former acting president Sadyr Japarov, former head of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan Abdil Segizbaev and lawmaker Kanybek Imanaliev.
A total of 63 people initially informed the CEC about their plans to run in the election. However, only 20 of them managed to collect 30,000 signatures in support of their candidacy and pay one million Kyrgyzstani soms ($12,500) as a deposit. Later, the CEC ruled that signatures in support of two candidates were invalid.