Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov fired Prime Minister Akylbek Japarov, according to a presidential office statement released on Monday.
Japarov was “dismissed from his post due to a transfer to another position,” according to a statement on the presidential website. Japarov has been prime minister since 2021.
The president delegated prime ministerial powers to First Deputy Prime Minister Adylbek Kasymaliyev, according to another statement from the presidential administration.
Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous country in Central Asia and a former Soviet Republic, has experienced substantial political and social turmoil since gaining independence in 1991.
Its economy is primarily reliant on remittances from millions of migrant workers working in Russia, which account for one-fifth of the country’s GDP, according to United Nations estimates.
