Svobodna Dnevnik

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El Correo Internacional

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President Zamambekuz announces new coalition government
By: Arta Petrovci
Published: Septem, 1579


Ilgiz Zaribzyanur signs the agreement between the Kyrzbek Labour Party and the Socialist People's Party

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Ayduramazan, Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan | President Aygöl Zamambekuz has announced a reshuffle of government, after the ruling Socialist People's Party has agreed a coalition agreement with the Kyrzbek Labour Party, the second largest political party in the Kyrzbekistani parliament.

The center-left Kyrzbek Labour Party had been the second largest political party since 1575, and has the only non-SPP Governor, in the State of Uzbekyak. Both political parties established a de facto cooperation at state level, but now they have decided to put aside their differences in order to avoid the current impasse in the Congress of People's Deputies. Since the Perovist split within the Socialist People's Party a year ago, the ruling government lost their majority in the Lower House, which has been translated in a decreasing number of laws passed. Now, both political parties have agreed on a center-left economic political program in order to give stability to the country.

There were division in the Kyrzbek Labour Party about to agree with such agreement and leave their position as the main opposition party and join the federal government. The election of Governor Ilgiz Zaribzyanur as new leader of the Kyrzbek Labour Party three months ago inclined the balance, and 57,1% of KLP militants voted to accept the agreement in an internal voting. About 18 Congress of People's Deputies MPs and 24 members of the Federal Chamber of Revolutionary Councils announced they were leaving the Kyrzbek Labour Party, as it must be not forgotten that a leading faction in the Kyrzbek Labour Party were former members of the Kyrzbek Democratic Party which rejected the merger of that party with the Workers People's Party, which gave birth to the Socialist People's Party in 1570. That division will not have much impact, however, as the SPP parliamentary group and the remaining Kyrzbek Labour MPs will have now a larger majority even enough to start and approve a constitutional ammend by their own. Zaribzyanur rejected that this could mean another potential merger between the Kyrzbek Labour Party and the Socialist People's Party in the coming future, declaring that KLP will keep their autonomy and independence.

It is not clear how the new coalition will affect the works of the federal governemnt and the governance of the country, as the People's Socialist Party, which has been in power since the proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan in 1568, has not shared the power since the first coalition government was dissolved in 1570. It is only confirmed so far that Arslan Ruslanur, former founder and leader of the Kyrzbek Labour Party, will be appointed Vice-Chairman of the People's Council of Commissar, in which the center-left Kyrzbek Labour Party will have four ministries, the rest of them being either members of the Socialist People's Party or independent ministers. The government reshuffle, however, it will affect most of the members of the national cabinet, which was kept with only some minor changes for the last decade.

It is confirmed that Qemal Krasniqi, Chairman of the People's Council of Commissar for the last six years, will be replaced by Damir Kazbekur. Krasniqi will be appointed Chairman of the Supreme Committee for State Security in the coming weeks according to government sources. The Supreme Committee for State Security is an advisor council under the authority of the Commissariat of Defense.

Damir Kazbekur, Commissar for Defense since 1570 and Vice-Chairman of the People's Council since 1573, will be appointed by President Aygöl Zamambekuz as new Chairman of the People's Council of Commissars, the head of government. A former leading commander of the Kyrzbek Revolutionary Army (KRG) during the Kyrzbekistani Civil War (also known as Second Arberian-Kyrzbek War), the socialist guerrilla movement and armed-wing of the Workers People's Party which has a leading role in the revolution which led to the proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, Kazbekur was one of the mastermind behind the creation of the Kyrzbekistani Armed Forces as member of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

Kazbekur remains one of the most popular members of the government in the public opinion, but his is not unknown to controversy. Critics have accussed him of war crimes during the civil war, one of the most famous cases after the Battle of Qenderë (1567), when KRG forced took the city and about 200 Arberian army officers, policemen, monarchists, landowners and noble families were reportedly executed. Kazbekuz will be replaced as Commissar for Defense by Gölçäçäk Aydakuz, former member of the Kyrzbekistani counter-intelligence agency -KYRZMaKBaK- becoming the first woman to head the ministry of defense. Although with the government reshuffle is likey to be reduced considerably the number of women in the national cabinet, for first time the head of state, and the ministries of defense and foreign affairs will be hold by a woman at the same time, as Chachak Kyrzbekuz has been confirmed as Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Aydakuz, who was the only known female commander of the KRG during the civil war, it is said to be very close to President Zamambekuz, although not much is known about her private life and ideological positions, as she tends to avoid much presence in the media.

It is not clear if either the coalition agreement or the government reshuffle will have much impact on the foreign policy of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan.