Crucially, perhaps, Atambayev and SDPK have put forward Jeenbekov and
said Sapar Isakov would be his prime minister.
Now, after only one six-year term,
current president Almazbek Atambayev will leave his post of his own volition.
Like his four Central Asian counterparts, he has been skillful at balancing and forming coalitions,
but unlike his neighbors, Atambayev has collaborated with opposition politicians.
Allegedly, in 2014 President Atambayev signed an order to lease the four helicopters for two years to Uganda,
which needed them to participate in the African Union mission to Somalia.