It is not that we didn’t expect another big shake in the country. But we didn’t expect it so soon. The news about the resignation of the Kyrgyz government followed shortly after the newly amended Constitution was adopted amidst street rallies in Bishkek last month.

It was predictable that certain tensions between the government and the parliament would appear but hardly anyone expected the government to make such a radical step. According to the Prime Minister Felix Kulov the decision to resign was made after it became clear that the two branches of power would not be able to coexist. “They keep sabotaging our work,”- emphasized Kulov explaining the decision. He also pointed out at the fact that the president should not be surprised by the resignation. “I several times told about my position to the president,”-he said.

The body that was really caught off guard by the resignation of the Cabinet was Kyrgyz parliament. It was even funny to observe scared MPs insisting that the president shouldn’t accept the resignation. In the light of the ongoing confrontation of the parliament and the government this reaction was rather strange. Not to anyone, though, knowing the details of the new Constitution. If you read this original document carefully you may notice that in the Chapter 71 it is stated that the government of the country is to be formed by the party that has a majority in parliament. One, who is familiar with the composition of today’s parliament in Kyrgystan, can easily point out at the fact that there is no such a thing as a winning majority in Jogorku Kenesh due to the fact that most of MPs were elected on the basis of single member constituencies.

Following simple logic one can suggest that since the parliament is not capable of appointing a Cabinet of Ministers due to its structural discrepancy, something should be done about such parliament. The most obvious choice in order to avoid the crisis of governance in this case is to dissolve the parliament, to stage new elections and to start everything from the scratch.

Logic, though, is not something our deputies are good at. For the people who were hoping to retain their parliamentarian mandates till 2010 the resignation of the government was a stab in the back. During an emergency session that the president and the prime minister had after the announcement MPs were theorizing about causes and consequences of the government resignation.

“They are conspiring against us and I still don’t know what exactly it is that they want to accomplish”,- said of the main cheer leaders of the protests and an ardent proponent of constitutional changed Omurbek Tekebaev. His friend in need Azimbek Beknazarov emphasized that the resignation of the government should not affect the parliament at all. But it was obviously more of wishful thinking of Beknazarov.

Kyrgyz deputies didn’t expect that the day may come when it will be necessary to be held responsible for enthusiastic ideas to bring down the old order and to start everything from scratch. The plan of starting the parliament from scratch was not included in the plan of reorganizing life in the country.