"In accordance with the bill prepared by the Legislative Chamber, the next presidential elections in the republic will be held not on the first Sunday of the third decade of December 2021, but on October 24 of this year," TASS quoted him as saying.

Saidov noted that the document must be approved by the Senate of the republic on February 5.

Earlier, Sadyr Zhaparov officially assumed the office of President of Kyrgyzstan.