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Viewing cable 09BISHKEK716, KYRGYZ ELECTION: PROFILES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

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09BISHKEK716 2009-07-06 10:25 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bishkek
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 BISHKEK 000716 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KG
SUBJECT:  KYRGYZ ELECTION:  PROFILES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 
 
Ref: A. Bishkek 682 
 B. Bishkek 668 
 C. Bishkek 662 
 D. Bishkek 651 
 
BISHKEK 00000716  001.6 OF 003 
 
 
1.  (U)  On June 18, the official campaign period began for the July 
23 Kyrgyz presidential election. There are six registered 
candidates:  incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, opposition 
politicians Almazbek Atambayev and Temir Sariyev, well-known 
psychiatrist Jenishbek Nazaraliyev, NGO leader Toktoayim Umetalieva, 
and political activist Nurlan Motuyev.  Following are brief profiles 
of the candidates. 
 
Kurmanbek Bakiyev 
----------------- 
 
2.  (SBU)  Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the current President of the Kyrgyz 
Republic, was born in 1949 in Masadan village in southern Jalalabad 
Oblast. His father served as an NKVD officer, and he has six 
brothers.  (Note:  The NKVD was a predecessor of the KGB.  End 
note.)  One brother is deceased, but the other five are all engaged 
in the political and economic life of the country.  They include: 
Janysh, the chief of the Presidential Protective Service; Marat, the 
ambassador to Germany; Adyl, a high-level official in the Foreign 
Ministry; Kanybek, a local elected official in Jalalabad Oblast; and 
Akmat, a businessman in Jalalabad Oblast. Jusup, who was closely 
involved in the "Tulip Revolution" of March 2005, died in 2006. 
Kurmanbek Bakiyev is married to Tatyana Bakiyeva, an ethnic Russian, 
and they have two children, Marat and Maxim.  Marat Bakiyev is a 
senior official in the State Committee on National Security, and is 
much less prominent than his younger brother Maxim, who is a 
businessman. Bakiyev is rumored to have a second, ethnic Kyrgyz 
wife, with whom he also has children. 
 
3.  (SBU)  Bakiyev graduated from Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute 
with a degree in engineering in 1978.  During the Soviet Union he 
primarily served as a manager and engineer in the electrical 
industry.  In the early 1990s, he moved into politics, and became 
the head of a local communist party branch.  Bakiyev moved up the 
political ranks under President Akayev, eventually becoming Prime 
Minister in 2000.  In March 2002, Bakiyev resigned after police 
brutally suppressed a protest rally in Aksy, Jalalabad Oblast. 
Following his resignation, he served as a Member of Parliament and 
became a leader in opposition politics.  After President Akayev fled 
the country in the face of mass protests in March 2005, Bakiyev was 
selected as Acting President, and then went on to run for President 
in tandem with Felix Kulov in July 2005, winning 89 percent of the 
vote.  The first years of Bakiyev's administration were turbulent, 
with frequent street protests and ongoing political battles with 
other opposition leaders.  But Bakiyev consolidated his power with a 
Constitutional referendum and Parliamentary elections in late 2007, 
and since then, has faced no serious challenges to his power.  On 
May 1, Bakiyev's political party Ak Jol nominated him for a second 
term. 
 
Almazbek Atambayev 
------------------ 
 
4.  (SBU)  Almazbek Atambayev was born in 1956 in Chui province.  He 
graduated from the Moscow Academy of Management in 1980 with degrees 
in engineering and economics.  He worked as an engineer and 
Communist Party functionary until the late 1980s, when he set up a 
private light manufacturing firm that has provided the financial 
backing for his political career.  He founded the Social Democrat 
Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) in 1993, and represented that party in 
Parliament from 1995 to 2000.  In March 2005, Atambayev and his 
party actively participated in the nationwide protests that brought 
down President Akayev.  He initially declared his candidacy for the 
Presidency, but later pulled out of the race to endorse the 
Bakiyev-Kulov tandem. 
 
5.  (SBU)  After Bakiyev's victory, Atambayev joined the cabinet as 
 
BISHKEK 00000716  002.6 OF 003 
 
 
the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, but he resigned in 
protest in April 2006.  He subsequently joined the opposition, 
publicly demanding constitutional reform and Bakiyev's resignation. 
Following several months of street protests, in March 2007 Atambayev 
agreed to serve as Bakiyev's Prime Minister, which many in the 
opposition saw as a defection.  Atambayev was dismissed as Prime 
Minister in late November 2007. On April 25, 2009 Atambayev was 
chosen as the candidate of the United People's Movement (UPM), an 
alliance of opposition parties. He is married and has six children. 
 
 
Temir Sariyev 
------------- 
 
6.  (SBU)  Temir Sariyev was born in 1963 in Chui Oblast, and 
graduated from the Kyrgyz National University with a degree in 
economics.  During the Soviet Union, he was a party functionary, and 
in the early 1990s, he started Central Asia's first commodities 
exchange.  He is now a part owner of a company that sells electrical 
equipment, as well as a shareholder in a consulting and design 
company.  The income from these investments has supported his 
political career.  Sariyev served in Parliament from 2000 to 2007, 
and in 2006 was elected deputy chairman of the SDPK.  Following 
Atambayev's acceptance of the Prime Minister slot from President 
Bakiyev, Sariyev broke away from the SDPK and formed his own party, 
Ak Shumkar.  Sariyev took his party into the UPM in December 2008, 
but broke away from it and announced that he would stand as a 
candidate for the Ak Shumkar party after the UPM nominated Atambayev 
as its presidential candidate.  Sariyev is married and has two 
children. 
 
Jenishbek Nazaraliyev 
--------------------- 
 
7.  (SBU)  Jenishbek Nazaraliyev was born in 1961 in Chui province. 
He is a well-known psychiatrist and founded a drug treatment center 
in Bishkek.  Nazaraliyev was an ardent critic of President Akayev 
and his regime, and took part in the 2005 protests that forced 
Akayev to resign.  He declared his intention to run in the 2005 
Presidential Election, but like Atambayev, he withdrew his candidacy 
to support the Bakiyev-Kulov tandem.  Nazaraliyev is running as an 
independent candidate.  He is married and has two children. 
 
Toktoayim Umetalieva 
-------------------- 
 
8.  (SBU)  Toktoayim Umetalieva was born in 1962 in Talas Oblast. 
She as worked as a Bishkek City Council member, a journalist, and as 
a lecturer in physics.  Since 2000, she has served as the Chairwoman 
of the Association of Non-Governmental and Non-Commercial 
Organizations, which professed its loyalty to the Akayev government 
during the political upheavals.  In the 2005 Presidential Election, 
Umetalieva ran as an independent candidate and received 0.55% of 
vote.  She is married and has three children. 
 
Nurlan Motuyev 
-------------- 
 
9.  (SBU)  Nurlan Motuyev was born in 1969 in Naryn Oblast. He is 
popularly known as the "coal king," due to his seizure of a 
government-owned coal mine during the chaos of spring 2005.  He was 
jailed for embezzling funds from the mine, and released from prison 
in January 2008.  Motuyev announced the formation of a Union of 
Muslims in late 2008, and garnered headlines by protesting against 
Israeli policies in Palestine, and against Manas Airbase.  Motuyev 
previously lived in the United States, but was subsequently 
deported.  His children still reside in the United States.  The 
co-chair of the Union of Muslims, former Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir 
uulu, had also announced his intention to run for President, but 
accepted an offer to be the Kyrgyz Ambassador to Malaysia. 
 
Comment 
 
BISHKEK 00000716  003.2 OF 003 
 
 
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10.  (SBU)  These brief sketches hint at the deep connections 
linking the three leading candidates.  Bakiyev, Atambayev, and 
Sariyev all began their careers as party functionaries, and all were 
active in organizing against President Akayev.  They also share a 
history of making and breaking alliances based on immediate tactical 
considerations. 
 
LITZENBERGER