A new constitution in Kyrgyzstan will turn the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic into a new state, an interim deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
The interim Kyrgyz government published a draft constitution on its site on Monday, which cuts the powers of the president and changes the Kyrgyz presidential regime into a parliamentary one.
"Practically, we create a new republic based on a multiparty democracy," Omurbel Tekebayev said. "The new system of state power guarantees citizens political freedom, economic freedom and freedom of the press."
Tekebayev hopes that a new democratic Kyrgyzstan will lean on these three pillars. He added that the draft of the new constitution might be changed during the next two weeks and a constitutional council will begin its work on its legal base.
The draft proposes a presidential term of five years and forbids any one president from serving more than two consecutive terms. The president will also be denied the power to veto.
The Kyrgyz parliament will have 120 deputies (or 105 according to a second version of the draft), elected every five years, with a vote threshold of 5%. No one political party can have more than 65 (or 60) seats in parliament.
The draft constitution names Kyrgyz as the country's national language and Russian as an official language.
The constitution draft gives people the right to rally peacefully and without arms, as long as the government is given prior warning.
Uprisings broke out in Kyrgyzstan on April 6, spreading across the country and lasting several days. Former President Kurmankbek Bakiyev was deposed and forced to flee the capital and later the country. An interim government was formed under Roza Otumbayeva.
RIA Novosti
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