President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov approved amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Kyrgyz Republic, which was adopted by the Parliament on September 28, 2023.
The document provides powers to the Constitutional Court to review its decisions, similar to the Supreme Court. It is envisaged to supplement the law with Article 521, according to which the decision of the Constitutional Court may be reviewed by it upon the proposal of the president or the chairman of the Constitutional Court in cases when:
- The norm of the Constitution on the basis of which the decision was made has changed;
- New circumstances significant for the subject of the appeal have been discovered that were unknown to the Constitutional Court at the time of making the decision;
- The decision contradicts the moral values, the social consciousness of the people of Kyrgyzstan.
The Constitutional Court makes a decision on the revision of a previously adopted act, by which it changes or cancels this act. The procedure for considering the issue of reviewing a decision of the Constitutional Court is determined by the regulations of the Constitutional Court.
The law comes into force on the date of its official publication.
On June 30, the board of the Constitutional Court made a decision on the petition of lawyers Elvira Tilek kyzy and Ainura Osmonalieva, representing the interests of Altyn Kapalova. The decision states that upon reaching the age of majority, a citizen who, for one reason or another, including life tragedies, does not accept a male name as an element of his or her full name, should have the right to choose between a patronymic and a matronymic.
The head of the State Committee for National Security, Kamchybek Tashiev, spoke out against the institution of matronymic in Kyrgyzstan and demanded from the Constitutional Court to cancel its decision. Spokesperson for the Constitutional Court of the Kyrgyz Republic Zhyldyz Zhoroeva reminded Kamchybek Tashiev that acts of the Constitutional Court are final and cannot be appealed.
Later, Parliament received amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court, proposed by President Sadyr Japarov. The deputies adopted them unanimously.
