Arstanbek Abdyldayev

Arstanbek Beishanalievich Abdyldayev (28 April 1968 – 5 January 2024), also known as Arstan Alai, was a Kyrgyz politician and businessman. He most notably was one of 86 initial candidates in the 2011 presidential election, where he received 8,770 votes and came in 9th. During his campaign, he became famous for his promise that there would be no winter, and the West would suffer from floods.

Career Abdyldayev, a businessman born in the Naryn Region of Kyrgyzstan, was the founder of the El Uchun party. He took part in the 2011 presidential election in Kyrgyzstan but gained less than 0.5 percent of the votes, taking the 9th place out of 16 candidates.

Abdyldayev gained immediate fame after holding a press conference shortly after the election, where he declared that there would be no winter in Kyrgyzstan, and that his home country is the core of the Earth.

Abdyldayev also ran in the 2017 Kyrgyz presidential election, this time as an Independent candidate. He received 0.12 percent of the votes, taking the 8th place out of 10 candidates, most of which also ran as Independents.

In October 2019, Abdyldayev faced prosecution after having declared himself a God. The prosecution was related to other comments made by Abdyldayev in August of the same year, where he announced that the "soul of God" had come to reside in him, and that he would come to reign over the universe by the end of the following year.

Death Abdyldayev was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in the canteen of the special medical correctional institution No. 31 of the Kyrgyzstan Penitentiary Service at 05:31 on 5 January 2024. He had been transferred there on 28 December 2023 on the recommendation of a psychiatrist. Abdyldayev was 55.