Nūrlan Mäjitūly Äbdırov (; born 12 January 1961) is a Kazakh politician who is the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan. Prior to that, he was the

Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan The Deputy Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan () is a post in the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Parliament which is the Senate of Kazakhstan. The Deputy Chair is nominated by the Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan, Senate Chair who a ...

from 2020 to 2022 and a member of the

Mäjilis The Mäjilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan (; ), commonly shortened as Mäjilis or Mazhilis ( Kazakh Cyrillic: Мәжіліс , 'Assembly'), is the lower house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, alongside the upper house Senate ...

from 2009 to 2020.

Biography

Early life and education

Nurlan Äbdirov is the son of Majid Abdirov, he born in the village of

Aqsu-Aiuly Aksu-Ayuly (; ) is the district capital of Shet District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It is also the administrative center of the Aksu-Ayuly Rural District (KATO code - 356430100). Population: The village is the birthplace of Kazakh poet Ikhl ...

in the

Shet District Shet District (, ) is a district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the village of Aksu-Ayuly. Population: Geography The Akbastau river has its sources at the northern end of Shet District. ...

to a

Sunni Muslim Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Musli ...

Kazakh family. In 1982, he graduated from the

Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Karaganda (, ; ), also known as Karagandy (, ; ; ) (also sometimes romanized as Qaraghandy), is a major city in central Kazakhstan and the capital of the Karaganda Region. It is the fifth most populous city in the country, with a population o ...

where he was lecturer there until 1984.

Career

In 1984, Äbdirov became an Adjunct at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 1987 to 1997, he was a lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, deputy Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In July 1997, Äbdirov was appointed as a Secretary of the State Commission of Kazakhstan on Drug Control. In May 2000, he became Deputy Chairman of the Agency of Kazakhstan on Combating Drug Addiction and Drug Business and from January 2001, was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Combating Drug Addiction and Drug Business of the Ministry of Justice. In September 2002, Äbdirov was appointed as state inspector of the Secretariat of the

Security Council of Kazakhstan The Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Security Council RK, , ҚР Қауіпсіздік Кеңесі; , Совет безопасности РК, ''Sovet bezopasnosti RK'') is a constitutional advisory body of the Kazakh Government ...

, until becoming the Head of the Department of Public and Environmental Safety of the Secretariat in September 2004. From April to June 2005, Äbdirov was the Deputy Head of the Secretariat until he was appointed as Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Head of the Secretariat. On 8 September 2009, Äbdirov became a member of the

where he served from March 2016 as a Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform. On 28 August 2020, he was appointed as a member of the

Senate of Kazakhstan The Senate of Kazakhstan (, ''Қазақстан Парламентінің Сенаты'', ) is the upper house of two chambers in Kazakhstan's legislature, known as the Parliament (''Parlamenti''). The Senate is composed of elected members: ...

by President

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 ...

. On 1 September 2020, Äbdirov was chosen to be the Deputy Chair of the Senate, succeeding

Bektas Beknazarov Bektas Äbdıhanūly Beknazarov () is a Kazakh politician who served as Deputy Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan from September 2016 to August 2020, and the 6th Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan The Supreme Court of the Republic ...

's role. On January 25, 2022, by decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was appointed Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

References

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