[6][7] Several opposition parties called on the government to postpone the election due to the COVID-19 pandemic prior to the campaign period in September.

Several other parties failed to meet the 7% threshold, including Ata Meken, which had been a part of every parliament since the 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution.

Out of the parties that made it into parliament, only United Kyrgyzstan consistently opposes the incumbent government led by President Jeenbekov.

[11] The Ata Meken Socialist Party and the Social Democrats both disputed the results, and staged a brief protest in Bishkek.

A total of 12 parties also signed a document urging the government to annul the elections as a result of irregularities and hold new ones.

[13] One group protesting in Bishkek managed to free ex-President Atambayev from jail on late in the night on 5 October, where he had been serving an 11-year-and-two-month sentence for a corruption since June.

[2] Prime Minister Kubatbek Boronov and parliament speaker Dastan Jumabekov also tendered their resignation on 6 October.

A group of 13 opposition parties said that they had formed the Coordinating Council of Popular Trust which would assume responsibility for formulating ideas to find a way out of the deadlock.

Zhaparov eventually ended up being elected PM with the necessary quorum (51 MPs were present and 10 were voting by proxy) in the early hours of the morning on 11 October.