Suvanaliev and Zhapykeev will get the chance to retake the written subtest after failing to score the required points on the state-language examination, open.kg reported at 10:02 Bishkek time, citing Kyrgyztest. Both may retake the examination in three working days, the testing centre said, while adding that a decision on a retake for presidential candidates should be taken by the Central Election Commission.
The question of retaking the language test is outside the commission’s competence, the commission answered, by the same report. At the moment only one person has applied to the commission with an application to nominate his candidacy, it said. 24.kg named him as the entrepreneur Aimen Kasenov on 15 October.
Both may retake the examination in three working days, the testing centre said, while adding that a decision on a retake for presidential candidates should be taken by the Central Election Commission.
The election is scheduled for 27 January 2027, open.kg reported, and the nomination window closes on 13 November, CAW reported on 12 October. The language test is a constitutional requirement for the office.
Sadyr Japarov, who spoke at the CICA summit in Baku on Thursday and arrived in Armenia after midnight, 24.kg’s mirror reported citing Akipress, signed a chain of decrees on Friday morning: Aktilek Musaeva was relieved as ambassador to China and Aizada Subakozhoeva, until the same morning deputy head of the National Agency for Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies, was appointed in her place, open.kg reported between 09:36 and 10:20.
The cabinet banned potato imports for six months, the same mirror reported at 10:21, and the finance ministry put draft amendments to the Tax Code up for public discussion.