The trigger for the appointment of Kyrgyz President, Sadir Jafarov to the presidency a few days before the end of receiving applications for the Central Election Commission and after the tragedy in Ala-Archa could have been the unification of the opposition. The statement of the ODK about appointing a single candidate is a kind of signal to the current government: it is necessary to act proactively. None of the competitors: Ayman Ksenov, Azamat Asenkov, Simik Zhafikaev, Akai Kidirov, Isak Mesaliev - looks like a character capable of creating a real competition. But the ODK, with its only candidate, already looks like a threat, because there is a structure behind it, apparently with external funding and ideas to reform the government, from the bottom up. Obviously there are games behind the scenes that we don't even know about.

The trigger for the appointment of Kyrgyz President, Sadir Jafarov to the presidency a few days before the end of receiving applications for the Central Election Commission and after the tragedy in Ala-Archa could have been the unification of the opposition. The statement of the ODK about appointing a single candidate is a kind of signal to the current government: it is necessary to act proactively. None of the competitors: Ayman Ksenov, Azamat Asenkov, Simik Zhafikaev, Akai Kidirov, Isak Mesaliev - looks like a character capable of creating a real competition. But the ODK, with its only candidate, already looks like a threat, because there is a structure behind it, apparently with external funding and ideas to reform the government, from the bottom up. Obviously there are games behind the scenes that we don't even know about.