2021 Kazakh Municipal Elections
Municipal elections were held in Kazakhstan where 730 Akim, äkıms (local heads) whose four-year terms expired were reelected for the first time Direct election, directly by the population on 25 July 2021 following an introduction of new law by the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Parliament, which allowed for direct elections for äkıms of cities with district importance, villages, and the townships of rural districts. From there, the ruling Nur Otan party won majority of 627 municipal races with most of its candidates being incumbents who occupied the äkım positions prior, followed by the Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party (33 äkıms), Adal (political party), Adal (15 äkıms), Ak Zhol Democratic Party (11 äkıms), People's Party of Kazakhstan (10 äkıms), and the Nationwide Social Democratic Party where it secured local race victory in West Kazakhstan Region. By-elections of äkıms in remaining vacant districts continued taking place later in the second half of the year ...
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Нурсултан Назарбаев (03-06-2021) (cropped)
Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev ( kk, Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев, Nūrsūltan Äbişūlı Nazarbaev, ; born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakhs, Kazakh politician and military officer who served as the first President of Kazakhstan, in office from country’s independence in 1991 until his formal resignation in 2019, and as the Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2022. He held the special title as Elbasy (meaning "Leader of the Nation", ) from 2010 to 2022. Nazarbayev was one of the longest-ruling non-royal leaders in the world, having led Kazakhstan for nearly three decades, excluding chairmanship in the Security Council after the end of his presidency. He has often been referred to as a dictator due to usurpation of power and autocratic rule. He was named General Secretary of the Communist Party, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Communist Party of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakh SSR in 1989 and was 1991 Kaza ...
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