Kanatbek Isaev

Kanatbek Isaev
Kanatbek Isaev
Канатбек Исаев
	Isaev in 2019
Speaker of the Supreme Council
	In office; 13 October 2020 – 4 November 2020
Preceded by	Myktybek Abdyldayev
Succeeded by	Talant Mamytov
Leader of the Kyrgyzstan Party
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; May 2015
Personal details
Born	7 February 1975 (age 49); Kalinovka, Chuy Region, Kirgiz SSR, Soviet Union (now Koshoy, Kyrgyzstan)
Political party	Kyrgyzstan (since 2015); Respublika (before 2015)

Kanatbek Kedeikanovich Isaev (Kyrgyz: Канатбек Кедейканович Исаев; born 7 February 1975) is a Kyrgyz politician who served as the Speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan. Isaev assumed office on 13 October 2020 after the resignation of Myktybek Abdyldayev.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Isaev is also the founder and chairman of Kyrgyzstan, a centrist political party that was established in 2015 to support then-president Sooronbay Jeenbekov. In 2017, while acting as opposition leader in the Supreme Council, Isaev was arrested by the state security service for allegedly planning riots before the 2017 Kyrgyz presidential election.^[6]

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