On May 5, the Kyrgyz Republic celebrates Constitution Day — is a holiday of the country's main law.
On this day in 1993, at the XII session, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan adopted the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz. Kyrgyz Republicson Constitution). From that moment on, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan became known as the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Constitution of the Kyrgyz SSR, adopted in 1978, lost its force.
Since its adoption, the Constitution has been amended and supplemented several times. In April 2010, there was a change of power in the country, as a result of which the Provisional Government came to govern the state, which decided to write its own Constitution, which proclaimed a parliamentary form of government in Kyrgyzstan. The referendum on the adoption of the new Constitution was held in June 2010, and today it is in force on the territory of the Republic.
In 2016, further amendments were made to 26 articles of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic of 2010. And on April 11, 2021, a new referendum was held in the Republic to change the Constitution of the country. On May 5, 2021, it came into force, creating a presidential form of government in the Republic.
For Kyrgyzstan, as for many states of the world, the Constitution is the basic law: it approves a list of fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens, determines the legal status of the state and has the highest legal force in the country.