DELEGATES FROM ALL OVER KYRGYZSTAN HEADING TO BISHKEK
17:15 | 30/ 03/ 2005
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BISHKEK, March 30 (RIA Novosti, Larissa Sayenko) - Petitioners started on Wednesday flocking to the Kyrgyz White House that has been virtually renovated after the assault. Activists, who were walking around the toppled Kyrgyz president, Askar Akayev, just a few days ago, now wait patiently for their turn to enter at the checkpoint.
The woman named Kymbat, who came from the south of the country is among the group of "people's commanders", petitions for dismissing the new speaker of the parliament. She is sure he tries to secretly compromise the acting president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
"We demand they either dissolve the new parliament or dismiss its speaker. It is one thing or the other," says the woman, who has spent the whole morning at the checkpoint of the government building.
Earlier, Kymbat was vigorously against the new parliament as such, because it was full of [former president] Akayev's supporters, but she is open for a compromise now, demanding at least the speaker elected just a few days ago be replaced.
She smartly uses well-known names, showing that she is well-versed in bureaucratic practices used by "old Akayevites" to steal power from "new Bakiyevites".
"If they disregard us, the people will not tolerate that and will have to take the parliament," she says.
There is nobody at the walls of the parliament taken over by new MPs. A red rope is blocking the entrance, and it is not enough for reporters to flash their IDs to be allowed in, as it was during the revolution. Police guards at the door brandish a list of the media accredited. A riot police platoon is sleeping on the ground under a firtree in want of anything to do.
The new MPs have been wrestling for governmental posts behind closed doors for the second day at a stretch.
The woman named Vazira came from the Lake Issyk-Kul area to the White House to ask for a new governor.
"Our previous governor, a woman, escaped and has been replaced with some cardiologist. What does he know of agriculture?" Vazira wonders.
When Mr. Bakiyev comes to the parliament, he calls the power struggle for governmental posts the main flaw of the new authorities. The acting head of government says that there are two or three governors and three-to-five district administration chiefs in many regions of the country, with people keeping on naming their representatives not only for leading positions, but for lucrative jobs as well.
On the "revolutionary square" near the White House, last activists of the calamities sit in a sartorius manner, admitting they have nowhere to go and no job either. They say they protect peace.