In an interview with the publication "Kabar," President Sadyr Japarov stated that some deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh were subjected to pressure using the name of the "general."
According to him, groups of deputies gathered with parliamentarians and posed the question: "Whose side are you on?", creating a dichotomy between the "general's side" and the "president's side."
He emphasized: "If I hadn't taken decisive measures in time, it could have led to conflict among ordinary people, and society would have begun to split. I had evidence that deputies and some civil servants were being intimidated, threatened with the 'general.' They were told: 'If you don't join us, you will have problems with the general,'" the president noted.
Japarov added that such actions began to go beyond the parliament: signatures were being collected on the streets for early elections, claiming that this was supposedly "agreed at the highest level."
