Last Change:
06/09/2025
The Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic
Year: 2021
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Asylum, Education, Freedom of movement, Health, Housing, land & property, Liberty & security of person, Nationality & facilitated naturalization, Social protection, Work & Workplace rights, Family life, Documentation
Description
The Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic accepted by referendum (national vote) on April 11, 2021.
The Constitution consists of 116 Articles divided into V Sections: Foundations of the constitutional order (I); Rights, freedoms and duties of individuals and citizens (II); Bodies of state power (III); Local government (IV); and Procedure for adopting, amending and complementing the Constitution (VI).
Selected provisions
1. Everyone has the right to education. 2. Basic general education is compulsory. 3. Everyone has the right to receive free pre-school, basic general, secondary general and primary vocational education in state educational institutions. 4. The state creates conditions for teaching each citizen the state, official and one of the foreign languages, starting from pre-school educational institutions to secondary general education. 5. The state creates equal conditions for the development of state, municipal, private and other forms of educational institutions. 6. The state creates conditions for the development of physical education and sports. 7. The state promotes the improvement of the professional qualifications of citizens in the manner prescribed by law.
1. Everyone is guaranteed judicial protection of his rights and freedoms provided for by the Constitution, laws, international treaties to which the Kyrgyz Republic is a party, and generally recognized principles and norms of international law. 2. Everyone has the right to protect his rights and freedoms, as well as to ensure the restoration of violated rights by all available means not prohibited by law. 3. The state ensures the development of extra-judicial and pre-trial methods, forms and ways of protecting the rights and freedoms of man and citizen.
1. This Constitution has supreme legal force and direct effect in the Kyrgyz Republic.
2. Constitutional laws, laws and other normative legal acts are adopted on the basis of the Constitution.
3. Generally recognized principles and norms of international law, as well as international treaties that have entered into force in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, are an integral part of the legal system of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The procedure and conditions for the application of international treaties and generally recognized principles and norms of international law are determined by law.
4. Official publication of laws and other normative legal acts is a mandatory condition for their entry into force.
5. A law or other normative legal act establishing new obligations or aggravating liability does not have retroactive effect.