Klara Sooronkulova, a former judge of the Constitutional Chamber of Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court, has applied to run in the country’s presidential election, reported 24.kg on Friday, citing the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums.
Sooronkulova, 57, applied as an independent candidate on November 12. She is the eleventh person to seek the presidency and the only woman among the applicants. The application period closed at midnight on November 12, and the commission now moves on to registering candidates. The election is scheduled for January 27, 2027.
Sooronkulova sat on the Central Election Commission in 2010–2011 and served as a Constitutional Chamber judge from 2011 to 2015. In 2020 she led the Reforma party in the parliamentary elections. She also ran in the early presidential election of January 10, 2021, and won 14,005 votes, about one percent of those who took part.
The other applicants include incumbent President Sadyr Japarov, former MP Iskhak Masaliev, former head of the Financial Police Syimyk Zhapykeev and former MP Baktybek Kalmamatov.
The race comes at a tense moment. Earlier this week Japarov warned that some forces were trying to stir up inter-ethnic conflict in the south of the country ahead of the vote.
CentralasianLIGHT.org,
November 13, 2026