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Presidential Elections In Kazakhstan
Presidential elections in Kazakhstan determine who will serve as the President of Kazakhstan for a seven-year term. Following constitutional reforms in 2022, the president is now limited to a single, non-renewable seven-year term. Prior to this, from 2011 to 2019, presidents could serve five-year terms with the possibility of re-election. Before that, from 1991 to 2005, the presidential term lasted seven years, with varying limits. Since the establishment of the presidency in 1990, Kazakh presidential elections have been held in 1991 Kazakh presidential election, 1991, 1999 Kazakh presidential election, 1999, 2005 Kazakh presidential election, 2005, 2011 Kazakh presidential election, 2011, 2015 Kazakh presidential election, 2015, 2019 Kazakh presidential election, 2019, and 2022 Kazakh presidential election, 2022. The next election is expected to take place in 2029, barring any changes or early elections. Presidential elections in Kazakhstan are conducted by direct Direct electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Kazakhstan
The president of Kazakhstan, officially the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the executive head of state of the Kazakhstan and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As the highest-ranking official in the country, the president also chairs the National Security Council with the powers and responsibilities of the office as outlined in a special section of the Constitution of Kazakhstan. The office of the president was established in 1990, a year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with Nursultan Nazarbayev becoming the first president. Nazarbayev served in office for nearly three decades until his resignation in March 2019. Following his resignation, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, assumed the acting presidency on 20 March 2019, who was then elected in the June 2019 presidential election. The presidential residence is located in Akorda Residence, the official residence and workplace of the president. Under the Constitution, the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zharmakhan Tuyakbay
Zharmakhan Aitbaiuly Tuyakbay (, , ; born 22 November 1947) is a retired Kazakh politician. He was the chairman of the Nationwide Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2019 and prior to that, he served as the Mäjilis chairman from 1999 to 2004. Tuyakbay was an opposition candidate in the 2005 Kazakh presidential election for the For a Just Kazakhstan political alliance, losing the race President Nursultan Nazarbayev to which he refused to concede. Some analysts considered Tuyakbay the most significant challenger to Nazarbayev in the election. Early life and career Tuyakbay was born in the town of Novostroyka (present-day Qyzylkia) in South Kazakhstan Region to the parents of Aitbay Tuyakbaev (1902–1978), who was a collective farmer, and Tynym Tuyakbaeva (1925–1994). In 1971, having graduated from the Law School of the Kazakh State University, Tuyakbay was recruited by the Investigatory Department of the Shymkent Oblast Prosecutor Office. In 1981, Tuyakbay was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Kazakh Constitutional Referendum
A constitutional referendum in Kazakhstan, locally called the Republican referendum (; ), was held on 5 June 2022. It was the third referendum since Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, and the first since the 1995 Kazakh constitutional referendum, 1995 referendum that established the current constitution. The amendments followed 2022 Kazakh unrest, violent civil unrest in early January caused by worsening economic conditions and subsequent calls for rapid political reform. The referendum changed 33 of the document's 98 articles. Political commentators assessed that amendments would lessen the influence of the Executive (government), executive branch, grant more powers to the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Parliament, and eliminate the powers that former president Nursultan Nazarbayev had retained after resigning from office in 2019. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev unveiled the proposed amendments during his early State of the Nation Address in March 2022. After Tokayev's announcements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auyl
The Auyl Party (; lit. 'Aul, Village', , ') is a political party in Kazakhstan. It was originally founded by Gani Qaliev on 30 January 2000 before eventually merging with the Party of Patriots of Kazakhstan on 5 September 2015. The party is currently led by Senate of Kazakhstan, Senator for Turkistan Region Äli Bektaev from August 2015. With a membership of around 300,000 people, Auyl has participated in every Kazakh parliamentary election since 2004 Kazakh legislative election, 2004 and nominated presidential candidate Toleutai Raqymbekov in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election, 2019 presidential election. It first entered the Mäjilis at the 2023 Kazakh legislative election, 2023 legislative election, winning eight seats and becoming the largest opposition party. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiguli Dairabaev
Jiguli (Zhiguli) Moldaqalyquly Dayrabayev (, ; born 29 October 1954) is a Kazakh politician who served as a member of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 1995. He is currently the chairman of the Association of Farmers of Kazakhstan and was the candidate for the 2022 presidential elections from the Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party. Biography Dairabaev was born on 29 October 1954. From 1974 to 1977, Dairabaev, who worked as a shepherd's assistant and a driver, began his career as the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Lugovoy District "Put k kommunizmu" (Russian: "Road to Communism") collective. From 1977, he held the position of the chairman of the trade union committee of the collective "Put k kommunizmu" of Lugovoy District until 1980. Dairabaev was appointed the chairman of the Kamensk Rural Executive Committee of that year after stepping down as a chairman. After that, for two years (1985–1987) he was the secretary of the party committee of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Coalition (Kazakhstan)
The People's Coalition (, HK; , NK), officially the People's Coalition in Support of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (; ), was an electoral alliance in Kazakhstan formed on 6 October 2022 from various pro-government political parties and republican public associations in support of incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's re-election bid for the 2022 presidential election. Background Following the 2022 Kazakh unrest, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev introduced a set of political reforms in his March 2022 State of the Nation Address, including proposed legislation aimed at restricting his executive powers. One such reform involved making the position of the president non-partisan by prohibiting presidents from holding political party membership while serving office. In line with this change, Tokayev, who had previously run for the presidency as the Amanat party candidate in the 2019 election, left the party in April 2022 by choosing to continue serving as an independent for the remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ult Tagdyry
Ult Tagdyry (, ), officially the "Ult Tagdyry" Joint National-Patriotic Movement (; ) is a Kazakh nationalist public association that was formed in 2005. The movement advocates for civil rights, language preservation, rural protection, and legal reforms. In the 2019 presidential election, Ult Tagdyry nominated opposition candidate Amirjan Qosanov, who won approximately 16% of the vote. History On 27 July 2005, a group of political activists, including Dos Koshim and Hasen Qojahmetov, announced the creation of a national political movement in Kazakhstan called Ult Tagdyry ("Fate of the Nation") at a press conference in Almaty. The launch coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 1905 Karkaraly petition, which called for civil liberties, equality, and the protection of the Kazakh language and culture. The organizers declared they would continue their work even without official registration as public association and emphasized the need to address persistent national issues su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amirjan Qosanov
Amirjan Sagidrahmanuly 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 Department of the Central Committee. After t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev (born 17 May 1953) is a Kazakhstani politician and diplomat who has served as the second president of Kazakhstan since 2019. He previously served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002 and as Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Senate from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2019. Tokayev also held the position of United Nations Office at Geneva, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2011 to 2013. Born in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Tokayev studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and later trained at diplomatic institutions in China. He began his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs before joining Kazakhstan's foreign service after independence in 1991. Tokayev twice served as Foreign Minister, from 1994 to 1999 and 2002 to 2007, as well as State Secretary of Kazakhstan, State Secretary from 2002 to 2003, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist People's Party Of Kazakhstan
The People's Party of Kazakhstan is a left-wing social democratic political party in Kazakhstan, chaired by Ermūhamet Ertısbaev. The secretaries of the central committee are Turgyn Syzdyqov, Gauhar Nugmanova, Viktor Smirnov and Jambyl Ahmetbekov. The party was founded as the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) on 13 April 2004. It was registered on 21 June 2004; the party had 90,000 members at the time of registration. 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 incumbent president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and is a 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 Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turgyn Syzdyqov
Turgyn Ysqaquly Syzdyqov (, ) is a Kazakh politician, chairman and secretary of Communist People's Party (QKHP). He was a candidate in the 2015 Kazakh presidential election. Biography Early life and education Syzdyqov was born in the village of Luganka. In 1966, he graduated from the Kazakhstan College of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture with a degree in mechanical engineering. He began his career in 1967 as a mechanic for the Chervonny state farm. From 1967 to 1968, Syzdyqov worked as a mechanic at the Kazakhselmash plant in Tselinograd. From 1968 to 1970, he worked as a master of vocational training at a Vocational School #81 in the village of Ruzayevka, at the same time, Syzdyqov was a secretary of the Komsomol committee of the vocational school, then an instructor at the Ruzaevsky District Committee of the Komsomol. In 1974, he graduated from the Higher Party School under the Komsomol Central Committee in Moscow with a degree in History and Social Studies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Patriots Of Kazakhstan
The Party of Patriots of Kazakhstan (, QPP) was a political party in Kazakhstan. At the legislative elections of 19 September and 3 October 2004, the party won 0.6% of the popular vote and no seats in the Majilis (legislative assembly). In the 18 August 2007 elections, the party won 0.75% of the popular vote and no seats. The party on 5 September 2015 merged with Kazakhstani Social Democratic Party Auyl to form the Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party in which according to QPP members was due to both parties having the same priorities, noting the fact that they were part of the Kazakhstan-2050 political alliance A parliamentary group, parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies. Some parliamentary systems allow smaller political parties, who a .... References Defunct political parties in Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
