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In 2002 a law set very stringent requirements for the maintenance of legal status of a political party, which lowered the number of legal parties from 19 in 2002 to 8 in 2003. The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Cabinet of Ministers and serves as Kazakhstan's head of government.
The 2022 Kazakh unrest, [a] also known as January Events, [b] [15] [16] [17] Bloody January, [c] [18] [19] or the January Tragedy, [d] [20] [21] was a series of mass protests and civil unrest that began in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on 1 January.
14 January - 2023 Kazakh Senate election [1] 15 February - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signs a law annulling many privileges of his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev, including lifetime financial support from the state, the right to address the nation and propose ideas to officials, and deprives his immediate family of legal immunity.
Protesters and police officers have died amid violent clashes across the Central Asian country
The unregistered Democratic Party of Kazakhstan in a statement expressed its opposition to snap elections which it described as being "unconstitutional" and instead called for the presidential election to be held after political reforms have taken place as well as political prisoners in Kazakhstan being released. [335]
The Kazakh democracy movement is a series of political movements in Kazakhstan that are supported by opposition groups and civil activists which are seeking for reforms in Kazakhstan's current political system, formed from 1991 after the country gained its independence from the Soviet Union and became a sovereign state by advocating for a ...
It was the third referendum since Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, and the first since the 1995 referendum that established the current constitution. [2] The amendments followed violent civil unrest in early January caused by worsening economic conditions and subsequent calls for rapid political reform. [3]
During the period of Kazimyrchuk and Chernyshov's stay in Ust-Kamenogorsk, a public appeal from the East Kazakhstan region to the "Rus" Public Opinion Organization and the State Duma of the Russian Federation was prepared, primarily addressing the negative aspects of the socio-economic and political situation in the region.