The сandidate who breaks ice

In the marketplace, being the first to arrive is crucially important.
The same in politics — arguably even more important than in business.
Consider the current situation in Kyrgyzstan: while other, far more influential and powerful politicians hesitated, the individual who stepped forward as one of first  candidate for participating on next presidential election, he gained a significant advantage over the rest. Because such a move is not merely a starting point rather a test of character.

This is especially considerable, because that individual was also one of the key instigators of the country’s previous revolution—the peaceful transfer of power that took place in the autumn of 2020.

If such figures like Syimyk Zhapykeev or Omurbek Suvanaliev,another prominent and brave leader who has stepped forward for presidential election, had been  part of Kerensky’s Provisional Government following the February Revolution in Russia in 1917, the subsequent coup might never have occurred. Russia could have been spared the descent into the chaos of civil war, mass repressions, famines, and the seven decades of Communist rule that followed. It is even possible that the Second World War—which was, in large part, a consequence of the alliance between two bloody dictators, Stalin and Hitler—might never have taken place.

Zhapykeev or Suvanaliev would simply have arrested the Bolsheviks—Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and their co-conspirators—following their electoral defeat. The legitimately elected deputies would have remained in parliament, and the established government would have continued its work.

But the reality is that the Bolsheviks, from the very beginning, aligned themselves with decisive allies—adventurers and even criminal figures drawn from the ranks of the common people. In both appearance and character, Zhapykeev is reminiscent of the legendary sailor Anatoly Zheleznyakov—the man who, late one evening in January 1918, forcibly cleared the Tauride Palace, dispersing both the Provisional Government and the All-Russian Constituent Assembly.

Today, more than a century later, this same individual—who has already played a part in one Kyrgyz revolution—could serve a constructive purpose by upholding the rule of law, thereby safeguarding democratic principles and the integrity of the presidential election process itself. In effect, he has already fulfilled this role by acting as an "icebreaker" candidate.