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Kyrgyzstan's governing coalition elected a parliamentary speaker on Friday in a bid to end months of upheaval and violence and build Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy.
Kyrgyzstan's governing coalition elected a parliamentary speaker on Friday in a bid to end months of upheaval and violence and build Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy.
Under the new model of government, backed by the United States but previously criticised by former imperial master Russia, parliament will be the main decision-making body and the prime minister will assume more power than the president. The speaker was named as Akhmatbek Keldibekov.