Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially took office August 14, 2005, as President of Kyrgyzstan. Protests had grown in Kyrgyzstan culminating in the ousting of then President Askar Akayev on March 24, 2005, when he fled to Moscow for his safety. Kurmnbek Bakiyev was then appointed as the acting prime minister and president of Kyrgyzstan. It wasn't until April 2005 that Akayev officially resigned and elections were scheduled for July. Bakiyev won the election which took place on July 11, 2005.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/01/mil-060109-irin05.htm

Bakiyev is running for another term in the Kyrgyzstan election, which will be held on July 23, 2009.

Kurmanbedk Bakiyev was born on August 1, 1949 in the village of Masaden, which was later renamed Teyyit, it is found in the Suzak district in the Jalalabad Province. Bakiyev attended the Kuybyshev Polytechnic Institute in Russia, graduating in 1978. While attending the institute he met Tatyana Vasilyevna. They married and had two children together, Marat and Maxim. Bakiyev and his family returned to Jalalabad where he was employed as a senior engineer-mathematician in 1979. Next he was employed as the director of the "Profile" factory of the USSR Ministry of electronic industry in Kok-Jangak. Bakiyev's soon entered politics.

Bakiyev pledged to end nepotism and corruption in the government and to fight wide spread poverty. The honeymoon with the country and the parliament was short lived. In November of 2006, after days of large protests in the capital, Bakiyev agreed and signed a the draft to the constitution which gave more authority to the parliament and curtailed some of his own powers. During the months before this, several Members of Parliament had been shot and some believed that organized crime was on the increase. There were Members of Parliament that believed Bakiyev was reneging on his campaign promises to redistribute power and he felt they were blocking key legislation. Shortly there after the government resigned and Bakiyev took steps to reinstate some of the powers he had given up in the new constitution.

The relationship with the new parliament and Bakiyev didn't improve and by March of 2007 there was pressure from the opposition for Bakiyev to resign. Not wanting to be pressured into leaving office, Bakiyev agreed to appointing a moderate opposition Member of Parliament as prime minister. Voters approved constitutional amendments which some say strengthened the parliament. In December Bakiyev's party won an overwhelming parliamentary election. It was said by international monitors that both the October and December election were flawed.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1296485.stm

• 1990: first secretary of the Kok-Jangak town committee
• 1991-1992: deputy chairman of the oblast council of People's Deputies
• 1992-1994: governor of the Toguz-Toror rayon of Jalalabad oblast
• 1995-1997: head of the Jalalabad oblast state administration
• 1997-2000: head of the Chui oblast state administration
• 2001: served as prime minister until he was forced to resign over the death of five demonstrators in March 2002
• October 2002: elected deputy to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic in Ala-Buka constituency #15
• February 2003: entered centrist group of the deputies of the Parliament "Regions of the Kyrgyz Republic"
• 2004: chairman of the Central Board of the Political Forces Association "National Movement of Kyrgyzstan"
• March 28, 2005: appointed as the acting prime minister and president; President Akryev officially resigned in April 2005
• July 11, 2005: elected as President
• August 14, 2005: Assumed officehttp://www.bakiev.kg/eng/biographyhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/01/mil-060109-irin05.htmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4660317.stm