http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201030-235820-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/filling-the-power-vacuum/ Filling the Power Vacuum Emtseva, Julia eng 2020-10-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Central Asia Constitutional Law parliamentary elections Protest Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Massive protests broke out after the Kyrgyz parliamentary elections on October 4, 2020. What unfolded in the aftermath is a political saga that nobody could have expected. At the moment, Sadyr Japarov, a convicted criminal, is acting as president and prime minister and moving forward with a number of unconstitutional initiatives. They could erase all positive achievements that Kyrgyzstan was able to reach in the course of the last fifteen years.