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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 ...
Kazakhstan's president appointed his chief of staff as the new prime minister Tuesday, the day after he dismissed the Central Asian country's government. A presidential decree announcing the ...
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 ...
Presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan on 20 November 2022. [1] [2] This was the seventh presidential election since Kazakhstan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. [3] Incumbent president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, an independent, was re-elected for a second term in a landslide, receiving 81% of the vote. [4]
[7] [8] In June 2024, President Tokayev announced that the referendum would be held in autumn, with the specific date determined by the Government. [9] As the majority of voters supported the initiative, a nuclear power plant will be built in the village of Ülken, near Lake Balkhash. President Tokayev has described this initiative as essential ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасының Үкіметі, Qazaqstan Respublikasynyñ Ükımetı) oversees a presidential republic. The President of Kazakhstan , currently Kassym-Jomart Tokayev , is head of state and nominates the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan , the head of government .