Principles of citizens’ participation in elections

1. Elections in the Kyrgyz Republic are conducted on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot.

Elections in the Kyrgyz Republic are based on free and voluntary exercise of electoral rights by the citizens of the country. No one shall have the right to make a pressure on citizens with a view to force them to participate or not participate in the elections, or on their free will.

2. Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic residing or located outside the Kyrgyz Republic shall have electoral rights in accordance with the present constitutional Law.

The electoral rights of the citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic residing or located outside its borders during the election period are ensured by the state agency in charge of foreign affairs through its diplomatic missions and consular offices.

Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, residing or located outside the country, vote at polling stations created at the proposal of the agency in charge of foreign affairs, in agreement with the relevant institutions of the country of accreditation, as a rule, on the territory of diplomatic missions, consular offices of the Kyrgyz Republic, representative offices of state agencies of the Kyrgyz Republic abroad.

3. Women, on an equal basis with men, shall have equal opportunities to exercise the right to elect and be elected to the position of the President or the deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh.

(In the version of the constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No 116 dated August 8, 2019)