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[417] [418] The overall voter turnout had reached 69.4%, the lowest number of any in the presidential elections of Kazakhstan. [417] For the first time since 1999, the ballot column "Against all" was reincluded in the election, to which 5.8% of Kazakh voters had cast their votes, making it the second overall most picked ballot column. [419]
Police in Kazakhstan detained protesters demanding fair elections in Almaty, the country’s largest city, as voters cast ballots in a snap presidential election on November 20, according to ...
Kazakhstan's president is elected by the people and serves a single seven-year term. Term limits were removed for the incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev on 18 May 2007, when parliament also voted to reduce the term length from seven to five years. [18] Early presidential elections were called by President Nazarbayev and were held on April 26, 2015 ...
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. [1] This was the sixth presidential election held since Kazakhstan's independence. The elections were not free and fair, and were widely denounced as a sham.
According to Article 41 of the Constitution, an eligible presidential candidate must be a citizen of Kazakhstan who is at least 40 years old. and has a perfect command of the Kazakh language and has lived in Kazakhstan for not less than 15 years. The election day shall be held on the first Sunday of December and shall not coincide with the ...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev became president following the 2019 election, where he secured his first five-year term of office upon the vote.Had Tokayev chose to run once his term expired the in originally scheduled 2024 presidential election, he would have been eligible by law to seek re-election and possibly continue hold office until 2029.
ULKEN, Almaty region, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -Kazakhstan voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, an idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's ...
Early presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan on 9 June 2019 following the resignation of long-term president Nursultan Nazarbayev. [6] Originally scheduled for 2020, seven candidates were registered to participate in the elections, including incumbent president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev , who had assumed the presidency three months before ...