BISHKEK (Reuters) -Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted on Thursday to dissolve the legislature for snap elections in a move analysts said was likely to consolidate President Sadyr Japarov’s power.

The election will take place on November 30, local media quoted Speaker Nurlanbek Turgunbek as saying, having previously been due by November 2026. Presidential elections are scheduled for January 2027.

Lawmakers argued that the snap poll was necessary because holding presidential and parliamentary elections close together would place a heavy financial and organisational burden on Kyrgyzstan, a relatively poor country whose economy has traditionally relied on remittances earned by migrants working in Russia.

Parliament is already dominated by parties loyal to Japarov, a nationalist and populist who

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