Journalist nominates himself to run in Kyrgyz presidential elections

AKIPRESS.COM - The Central Election Commission today received the statement of self-nomination to run in the snap presidential elections from Kuttumidin Bazarkulov.
Bazarkulov, 52, is director of Derbish Foundation, editor of Adam magazine. He used to work on KTRK, ElTR government-run TV channels. In 2016, he was dismissed from the post of director general of Jalal-Abad broadcasting company over failure to implement program of switchover to digital broadcasting.
The Central Election Commission received documents from 26 self-nominated presidential candidates before, one candidate recalled its documents later.