7th of November is a public holiday in Kyrgyzstan. It marks the day of the Great October Revolution back in 1917 when the tsarist regime in Russian Empire was overthrown and replaced by Bolsheviks.
Ironically enough this day is said to mark a beginning of a new epoch in Kyrgyzstan. After an emergency session gathered tonight in the Kyrgyz parliament it was announced that oppositional deputies were ready to vote for the new Constitution draft as a counterbalance of the amendments proposed by the president of Kyrgyzstan yesterday.

The legality of such steps is questioned by the majority of the population. Opposition leaders, though, doesn’t seem to care a lot about legal procedures. Late at night they agreed to establish a Constituent Assembly for the purpose of adopting a new constitution. Here it should be noted that the legal procedure of establishing such bodies does not exist in the Constitution, which means that the gathering didn’t bear any signs of legality.The session started at around midnight. With no quorum and several dozens of deputies boycotting the meeting members of the opposition announced that they sighed a draft of the Constitution, that in their opinion should be adopted in Kyrgyzstan. Meanwhile, there is hardly any information about any details on the content of the Constitution. As multiple drafts have been discussed recently, I, personally, have a fear that in an ongoing revolution fever and amidst the unrest even the completely insane draft of Azimbek Beknazarov (one of the leaders if the opposition movement “Supporting Reforms”) can potentially be adopted. Mind that “people’s representatives” who have been constantly declaring their loyalty to the citizens of Kyrgyzstan never even bothered explaining which Constitution draft was under consideration in the parliament tonight.

Meanwhile, the crowd of the so-called supporters of Kyrgyz opposition, who have been picketing on the main square of Bishkek for 5 days pressing for constitutional reforms, hardly demonstrated any interest to what exactly was happening in the parliament. The flock of protesters, who got used to cheering every word of revolutionary inclined deputies got well prepared for screaming and shouting on the streets but, definitely, not for thinking about the consequences of adopting the Constitution overnight.

For now it’s still not clear whether 7th of November will, indeed, become a double “celebration” for Kyrgyzstan. There are already suggestions to name it the Day of the New Banana Republic of Kyrgyzstan. One more anniversary to mourn over.