Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev

Abylgaziev was born on 20 January 1968 in the Kochkor District of the Naryn Oblast in the Kyrgyz SSR. In 1994 he graduated from the Agricultural Institute named after Konstantin Skryabin with a specialization in Agronomy. In 1997 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the International University of Kyrgyzstan. He worked in financial companies from 1994 to 1999 and had since 1999 worked for the City of Bishkek. From 2003 to 2016, he worked at the Social Fund, serving as its head from 2010 to 2016.

From April 13, 2016 to August 22, 2017, he joined the government as First Deputy Prime Minister. Abylgaziev was the acting prime minister of Kyrgyzstan from 22 August to 26 August 2017. He joined the Presidential Administration after his dismissal from this post to serve as a presidential advisor, and a month later, was appointed First Deputy Chief of Staff. From March 16 to April 20, 2018, he served as Chief of Staff to President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.^[3]

He was appointed following Sooronbay Jeenbekov's resignation to contest the October 2017 presidential election. Abulgaziyev previously served as deputy prime minister.^[4][5] On 20 April 2018 he was reappointed prime minister by President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, after Prime Minister Sapar Isakov's government was sacked.^[1] On 25 April the new government was sworn in.^[6]

During his term, Abylgaziev met frequently with other heads of government, including with Kazakh prime minister Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.^{[citation needed]}

On 15 June 2020, Abylgaziev resigned from his post as prime minister in connection with criminal allegations against the government on the extension and renewal of radio frequency resources, though Abylgaziev denied any wrongdoing.^[2]