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2019 Dania Espaeva Presidential Campaign
Danial Espaeva, member of the Mazhilis from 2016, was announced as a presidential nominee for the Ak Zhol Democratic Party on 24 April 2019, making her the first female in Kazakhstan history to bid for presidency. With 190 party delegates participation in the nomination, she received votes from half of the delegates while the remaining were divided among 5 men that were bidding for the nomination. This sparked controversy at the party congress to which Espaeva called it "offensive" and noted that no female in the Kazakh government has been involved in high-level corruption cases. The Central Election Commission registered Espaeva as the candidate for the election on 3 May 2019 and announced her campaign platform on 12 May. Platforms * Promote competition and mass entrepreneurship * National independence * Fighting against corruption and de-offshorization Economic policy Espaeva supported to reduce interest rates in banks, as well as to end the practice of devaluation and i ...
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2019 Kazakh Presidential Election
Snap presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan on 9 June 2019 to elect the President of Kazakhstan following the resignation of long-term President Nursultan Nazarbayev in March 2019.Kazakhstan to hold early presidential election on June 9
Al Jazeera, 9 April 2019
This was the sixth presidential election held since Kazakhstan's independence. The elections were not free and fair, and were widely denounced as a . Acting president of

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Communist People's Party Of Kazakhstan
The People's Party of Kazakhstan ( abbr. QHP),, NPK originally the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP),, KNPK is a left-wing political party in Kazakhstan, currently led by Ermūhamet Ertısbaev. The Secretaries of the Central Committee are Turgyn Syzdyqov, Gauhar Nugmanova, Viktor Smirnov and Jambyl Ahmetbekov. The party was registered on 21 June 2004. At the time of registration, the party had 90,000 members. Following the 2004 elections to the Mazhilis the party received 1.98% of total votes. In the 2007 elections to the Mazhilis the party won 1.29% of the votes and did not pass the electoral threshold. The QKHP was elected to parliament in the 2012 legislative election. The party is loyal to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and his part of the pro-Tokayev People's Coalition. History The party emerged due to a split in the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP). The idea to create a new party belongs to the 12 members of the Central Committee of Communist Par ...
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Amirjan Qosanov
Amirjan Sagidrahmanuly Qosanov ( kk, Ämırjan Sağidrahmanūly Qosanov, , born 13 May 1964) is a Kazakh politician, journalist, political activist. He was a main challenger to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Early life, career Amirjan Qosanov was born to a Muslim Kazakh family on 13 May 1964 in the settlement of Sapaq in the Aral District of the Kyzylorda Region. He is the son of Sagid-Rahman Qosanov. From 1981, he worked as a mechanic in the Novokazalinsk station. From 1983 to 1985, Qosanov served in the Soviet Army. In 1984 he joined the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and was in it until its self-dissolution in 1991. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of the Kazakh State University in 1989. Qosanov worked as a correspondent of the Party Life Department of the Republican Newspaper Socialist Kazakhstan and in 1990, at a Komsomol job by being the First Secretary of the Frunze District Committee, then as a Head of the Policy Departm ...
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Ult Tagdyry
Ult Tagdyry ( kz, Ұлт тағдыры, ) is a Kazakh nationalist political movement that was formed on 28 July 2005. It was known for having Amirjan Qosanov Amirjan Sagidrahmanuly Qosanov ( kk, Ämırjan Sağidrahmanūly Qosanov, , born 13 May 1964) is a Kazakh politician, journalist, political activist. He was a main challenger to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Early ... being its nominee in the 2019 presidential election where he won around 16% of the popular vote, making it the most votes that a non-incumbent presidential candidate has received in Kazakhstan's history. It also criticized the proposal to extend Nazarbayev's term to 2020. References Political advocacy groups in Kazakhstan Political movements in Kazakhstan Organizations established in 2005 2005 establishments in Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-party-stub ...
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Toleutai Raqymbekov
Toleutai Sataiuly Raqymbekov (, ''Töleutai Sataiūly Raqymbekov'', ; born 19 July 1964) is a Kazakh politician who's the Chairman of National Agrarian Research and Education Center. He served as a Vice Minister of Agriculture in 2017 and was presidential nominee for the Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Biography Early life and education Raqymbekov was born in 1964 in the village of Atasu in Karaganda Region. In 1986, he graduated from the Kazakh National Agrarian University with a degree in mechanical engineering then in 2001 from the Karagandy State University with a degree in law. In 2014, he earned his masters in construction from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Career After graduating from the Kazakh National Agrarian University, Raqymbekov was a junior researcher, postgraduate student there until 1987. From that same year, he worked as an engineer, foreman, senior foreman, senior process engineer of t ...
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Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party
The "Auyl" People's Patriotic Democratic Party (, ''«Auyl» Halyqtyq-demokratialyq patriottyq partiasy''; AHDPP) or simply as "Auyl" HDPP, is a political party in Kazakhstan. It was originally founded by Gani Qaliev on 30 January 2000 as the "Auyl" Peasant Social Democratic Party before eventually merging with the Party of Patriots of Kazakhstan on 5 September 2015. The party is currently led by Senator for Turkistan Region Äli Bektaev from August 2015. With a membership of around 300,000 people, the Auyl since 2004 has participated in every Kazakh parliamentary election although never managing to enter the Mazhilis and has once nominated presidential candidate Toleutai Raqymbekov in 2019 presidential elections. The Auyl declared its main values of spirituality, patriotism, loyalty, equality, cooperation. Basing its principles of social democracy, the party spoke out in favour of the rural population's interests by seeing its priorities as strengthening state regulation and su ...
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Nur Otan
Amanat (), previously known as Nur Otan () until 2022, is a big tent political party in Kazakhstan. Being the largest to date, it has been the ruling party of the country from 1999, with a membership claiming to be of over 762,000 people in 2007.Kazakhstan: Ruling Party Gets Even Bigger
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Amanat is led by Erlan Qoşanov since 26 April 2022. Under the 21-year leadership of former President since the party's founding, Amanat had constantly won Kazakhstan's

Amangeldi Taspihov
Amangeldi Satybaldyuly Taspihov (, ''Amangeldı Satybaldyūly Taspihov,'' ; born 20 November 1959) is a Kazakh politician, businessman and the chairman of the Territorial Association of Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan in West Kazakhstan Region. Taspihov served as a Senator from West Kazakhstan Region from 1998 to 2002, then as a member of the Mäjilis from 2004 to 2007. He was nominee for the Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan (QRKF) in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Biography Early life and education Taspihov was born in the village of Qoşanköl in West Kazakhstan Region. In 1982, he graduated from the Satbayev University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Career After graduating, Taspihov was Process Engineer at the Almaty Heavy Machine Building Plant. From 1983 to 1987, he worked as assigner of the TNK Bureau, head of the section, head of the mechanical assembly shop, representative of the State Acceptance Authority of the Oral Valve Plan ...
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Jambyl Ahmetbekov
Jambyl Aujanuly Ahmetbekov ( kk, Жамбыл Аужанұлы Ахметбеков, ''Jambyl Aujanūly Ahmetbekov,'' ; born 11 February 1961) is a Kazakh politician, Secretary of Central Committee of the People's Party of Kazakhstan since 2007, and a member of Mazhilis from 2012. He was a nominee for the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) in the 2011 and 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Early life and career Ahmetbekov was born in Shanteke, Tselinograd Oblast, Kazakh SSR. In 1978, he graduated from Kuybyshev High School. From 1978 to 1983, Ahmetbekov studied at the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanization of the Tselinograd Agricultural Institute. During his time, Ahmetbekov played guitar and sports. From September 1983, he worked as a mechanic at the Kurgaldzhinsky state farm, and already in November of that year, Ahmetbekov was elected to be the secretary of the Komsomol committee of a state farm. From 1987 to 1990, Ahmetbekov worked as an instructor in the ideol ...
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Sadibek Tügel
Sädibek Tügel (, ''Sädıbek Tügel''; born 23 February 1955) is a Kazakh writer and publicist, who's a member of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was a candidate for the Uly Dala Qyrandary movement in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Early life and education Tügel was born in the village of Amangeldi in the East Kazakhstan Region. In May 1973 he was drafted into the Soviet Armed Forces where he served in East Germany. In 1982 he graduated from the correspondence faculty of journalism of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. From 1988 to 1990 he studied full-time at the Almaty Higher Party School, where he received a degree in political science and sociology. Career Tügel began his career as a mechanic at the Alma-Ata cotton-spinning factory. He worked as a translator-correspondent of the Ulanskiy district newspaper ''Rastsvet - Orken'', an instructor of the Organizational Department of the executive committee of the District Council of Peop ...
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Dania Espaeva
Dania Madiqyzy Espaeva ( kz, Дәния Мадиқызы Еспаева, ''Dänia Madiqyzy Espaeva'', ; born 5 March 1961) is a Kazakh politician and a member of the Mazhilis from 24 March 2016. She was the first ever Kazakh woman to be a presidential candidate during the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Biography Espaeva was born on 5 March 1961 in the village of Jaisan in the Martukst District of the Aktobe Region. In 1982, she graduated with honors from the Alma-Ata Credit and Accounting College and then from the Kazakh State Academy of Management of Alma-Ata with a degree in economics in 1993. From 2008 to 2016, Espaeva was a member of the Aktobe Regional Maslihat, on the commission on family and women. Since 24 March 2016, she is a member of the Mazhilis from the Ak Zhol Democratic Party on the Finance and Budget Committee. On 24 April 2019, Espaeva became registered as candidate for the 2019 Kazakh presidential election Snap presidential elections were held in K ...
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Uly Dala Qyrandary
Uly Dala Qyrandary (, literally ''Eagles of the Great Steppe'') is a Kazakh political organisation that was founded on 12 October 2011. The organization is engaged in the development of cultural and national values in the country. It is led by Kazakh writer and politician Sadybek Tügel who was the candidate for the movement in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election Snap presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan on 9 June 2019 to elect the President of Kazakhstan following the resignation of long-term President Nursultan Nazarbayev in March 2019.
. Tugel won 0.92% of the vote and took last place in the race.


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Political advocacy groups in Kazakhstan
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