The second question asked by the Constitutional Chamber is whether it is consistent with democratic principles to suspend the electoral process for the formation of the supreme legislative body in order to carry out constitutional reform before those elections. With respect to the actual aim of the suspension, it has been already been stressed that an outgoing parliament in prorogatio would in principle lack the democratic legitimacy to carry out constitutional amendment; the actual justification for the suspension might rather have been the massive refusal by the Kyrgyz population of the rigged results of the parliamentary elections.