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2022 Kazakh Constitutional Referendum
A constitutional referendum in Kazakhstan, locally called the Republican referendum (; ), was held on 5 June 2022. It was the third referendum since Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, and the first since the 1995 referendum that established the current constitution. The amendments followed violent civil unrest in early January caused by worsening economic conditions and subsequent calls for rapid political reform. The referendum changed 33 of the document's 98 articles. Political commentators assessed that amendments would lessen the influence of the executive branch, grant more powers to the Parliament, and eliminate the powers that former president Nursultan Nazarbayev had retained after resigning from office in 2019. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev unveiled the proposed amendments during his early State of the Nation Address in March 2022. After Tokayev's announcements, he subsequently formed a working group in forming proposals for the constitutional changes along with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is divided into 17 regions ( kk, облыстар/''oblystar''; singular: облыс/''oblys''; russian: области/''oblasti''; singular: область/''oblast). The regions are further subdivided into districts ( kk, аудандар/''audandar''; singular: аудан/''audan''; russian: районы/; singular: russian: район/). Three cities, Shymkent, the largest city Almaty, and the capital Astana) are not part of the regions they are surrounded by. On 16 March 2022, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that three new regions would be created. Abai Region was created from East Kazakhstan Region with its capital in Semey. Ulytau Region was created from Karaganda Region with its capital in Jezkazgan. Jetisu Region was created from Almaty Region with its capital in Taldykorgan; Almaty Region's capital was moved from Taldykorgan to Qonaev. __TOC__ Regions Demographic statistics In 2022, three new regions were created - Abai (from p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Kazakh Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan on 4 December 2005. Incumbent president Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1989, sought and won a 3rd term against four other candidates. Opposition candidates were allowed some access to the mass media, but this was still restricted. According to western election observers, opposition candidates also suffered considerable harassment. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) criticized the elections, calling them unfair, but noted improvements. Background On 22 June 2000, the Constitutional Council ruled that the President Nursultan Nazarbayev who was reelected in 1999 for second term, was in fact serving his first term due to the newly adopted Kazakhstan Constitution in 1995, which happened before his reelection bid. As a result, Nazarbayev was eligible to run for ''de facto'' third term. Prominent Kazakh official, Zharmakhan Tuyakbay, resigned as the Chair of the Mazhilis on 14 October 2004 after accusing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
Constitution Day of Kazakhstan ( Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасының Конституция күні) is the main national holiday in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Constitution Day is celebrated annually August 30. It commemorates the adoption of the Kazakhstani Constitution in 1995. Constitution Day is one of the most important holidays in Kazakhstan. Celebrations There are traditionally mass festivities, concerts, parades and fireworks on this day. The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan also conducts seminars in high schools around the country. In 2011, Kazakhstani pop stars such as Nagima Yeskaliyeva, Zhanna Orynbassarova, as well as songs from The Beatles, and Almaty Symphony Orchestra. Holiday parade The celebrations in 2009 in honor of the 14th anniversary of the Constitution of Kazakhstan were marked the first time that there was a military procession of the armed forces in Astana, the presiding officers of which were Adilbek Zhaksybekov and Major General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semi-presidential System
A semi-presidential republic, is a republic in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet, with the latter two being responsible to the legislature of the state. It differs from a parliamentary republic in that it has a popularly elected head of state and from the presidential system in that the cabinet, although named by the president, is responsible to the legislature, which may force the cabinet to resign through a motion of no confidence. While the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and Finland (from 1919 to 2000) exemplified early semi-presidential systems, the term "semi-presidential" was first introduced in 1959 in an article by journalist Hubert Beuve-Méry, and popularized by a 1978 work written by political scientist Maurice Duverger, both of whom intended to describe the French Fifth Republic (established in 1958). Definition Maurice Duverger's original definition of semi-presidentialism stated that the president had to be elected, possess signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadibek Tügel
Sädibek Tügel (, ''Sädıbek Tügel''; born 23 February 1955) is a Kazakh writer and publicist, who's a member of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was a candidate for the Uly Dala Qyrandary movement in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Early life and education Tügel was born in the village of Amangeldi in the East Kazakhstan Region. In May 1973 he was drafted into the Soviet Armed Forces where he served in East Germany. In 1982 he graduated from the correspondence faculty of journalism of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. From 1988 to 1990 he studied full-time at the Almaty Higher Party School, where he received a degree in political science and sociology. Career Tügel began his career as a mechanic at the Alma-Ata cotton-spinning factory. He worked as a translator-correspondent of the Ulanskiy district newspaper ''Rastsvet - Orken'', an instructor of the Organizational Department of the executive committee of the District Council of Peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amirjan Qosanov
Amirjan Sagidrahmanuly Qosanov ( kk, Ämırjan Sağidrahmanūly Qosanov, , born 13 May 1964) is a Kazakh politician, journalist, political activist. He was a main challenger to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election. Early life, career Amirjan Qosanov was born to a Muslim Kazakh family on 13 May 1964 in the settlement of Sapaq in the Aral District of the Kyzylorda Region. He is the son of Sagid-Rahman Qosanov. From 1981, he worked as a mechanic in the Novokazalinsk station. From 1983 to 1985, Qosanov served in the Soviet Army. In 1984 he joined the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and was in it until its self-dissolution in 1991. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of the Kazakh State University in 1989. Qosanov worked as a correspondent of the Party Life Department of the Republican Newspaper Socialist Kazakhstan and in 1990, at a Komsomol job by being the First Secretary of the Frunze District Committee, then as a Head of the Policy Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Kazakh Presidential Election
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.Kazakhstan to hold early presidential election on June 9 Al Jazeera, 9 April 2019 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. Acting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of |
1993 Kazakh Constitution
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF Waco siege, besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major 1993 Storm of the Century, snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorism, narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Military Forces of Colombia, Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorism, Islamic terrorists 1993 World Trade Center bombing, detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of List of tenants in 1 World Trade Center (1971–2001), the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serikbolsyn Abdildin
Serikbolsyn Abdildauly Abdildin ( kk, Серікболсын Әбділдаұлы Әбділдин, ''Serikbolsyn Ábdildauly Ábdildın''; 25 November 1937 – 31 December 2019) was a Kazakh economist, politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1996 to 2010, member of the Mazhilis from 1999 to 2004 and a candidate in the 1999 presidential election. He is often described as "patriarch" for the formation of parliamentarism and the first-drafted Kazakh Constitution in early years of independence. While proclaiming himself as a Communist, Abdildin was vivid supporter for democracy and has called for reforms for a multi-party system with a rule of law. Äbdildin began his career as an agriculturist until becoming involved in politics from serving in Soviet state bodies in Kazakhstan to eventually becoming the head of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR where he was involved in the drafting of the new post-independent Constitution. After the dissolution of the legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Soviet Of The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
The Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR ( kk, Қазақ ССР Жоғарғы Советі, Qazaq SSR Joğarğy Sovetı; russian: Верховный Совет Казахской ССР), also known as the Supreme Council was a unicameral legislative branch of the Kazakh SSR, one of the republics comprising the Soviet Union. The Soviet had very little power and carried out orders given by the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (CPK). Chairman Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR The office Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet is the ''de facto'' head of state of the Kazakh SSR. * Abdisamet Kazakpaev (July 17, 1938 – January 1947) * Ivan Lukyanets (January 1947 – March 20, 1947) * Daniyal Kerimbaev (March 20, 1947 – January 23, 1954) * Nurtas Undasynov (January 23, 1954 – April 19, 1955) * Zhumabek Tashenev (April 19, 1955 – January 20, 1960) * Fazyl Karibzhanov (January 20, 1960 – August 25, 1960) * Kapitolina Kryukova (August 25, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurultai
Kurultai ( Mongolian: , Хуралдай, ''Khuraldai'') or ; Kazakh: Құрылтай, ''Qūryltai''; tt-Cyrl, Корылтай, ; ba, Ҡоролтай, ; az, Qurultay; tk, Gurultaý was a political and military council of ancient Mongol and Turkic chiefs and khans. The root of the word is Proto-Mongolic *''kura-'', *''kurija-'' "to collect, to gather" from which is formed ''khural'' meaning "meeting" or "assembly" in Turkic and Mongolian languages. ''Khuraldai'', ''khuruldai'' or ''khuraldaan'' means "gathering" or, more literally, "intergatheration". From this same root arises the Mongolian word хурим (''khurim''), which means "feast" and originally referred to large festive gatherings on the steppe but is used mainly in the sense of "wedding" in modern times. Mongol Empire All Great Khans of the Mongol Empire, for example Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan, were formally elected in a ''Kurultai''; khans of subordinate Mongol states, such as the Golden Horde, were elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationwide Social Democratic Party
The Nationwide Social Democratic Party ( kk, Жалпы ұлттық социал-демократиялық партия, Jalpyūlttyq Sotsial-Demokratialyq Partia, JSDP), sometimes translated as the All-National Social Democratic Party, is a political party in Kazakhstan led by Ashat Raqymjanov. It was founded by a former presidential candidate and the Mazhilis Chairman, Zharmakhan Tuyakbay. The party was registered by the authorities on 25 January 2007, aiming to become a member of the Socialist International (SI) which happened in 2012 as the JSDP became consultative member, and then a full member in 2016. History On 7 August 2006, on the basis of the For a Just Kazakhstan (EQU) alliance, a meeting of the Initiative Group of Citizens on the creation of the Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP) was held, which made a decision on the formation of the Republican Organizing Committee. From there, main program goals and objectives of the newly created party were discussed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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