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E. Presidential candidacy rights


Article 74(3) of the draft law establishes the following requirements for a candidate for president:


Any citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, who does not have citizenship of a foreign state, is not younger than 35 years old and not older than 70 years old, has higher education and working in total no less than 7 years as a head in state and municipal bodies, speaks the state language and has been living in the Kyrgyz Republic for at least 15 years in aggregate, may be elected as President of the Kyrgyz Republic.