Policy of Kazakhstan

Political regime

Kazakhstan has a Presidential regime considered as authoritative. Current the Constitution of Kazakhstan was adopted by national Référendum the August 30th 1995. It replaced the first Constitution of the January 28th 1993.

Presidency of the republic

The Head of the State is currently the President Noursoultan Nazarbaïev (elected for seven years with 91 % of the voices to the first turn). The chief of the government is the Prime Minister Karim Massimov.

The President of the Republic is alone to have the following rights:

to propose Amendment S with the Constitution;
to name and relieve the members of the government;
to dissolve the Parliament;
to propose referendums;
to name and relieve the governors of the areas (oblystar) and the towns of Astana and Almaty.

Parliament

The Parliament of Kazakhstan is composed of a Lower House, the Majilis , and of a Upper House, the Sénat .

Majilis is composed of 77 Député S elected with the Vote for all, the Scrutin is partially proportional.
the Senate comprises 39 seats. 7 senators are directly named by the President of the Republic. The others are elected by the Great Electors of the 14 oblystar and the two cities with particular status (Astana and Almaty). It should be noted that these Great Electors themselves are named by the president of the Republic.

Political life

Legislative elections of August 2007

The legislative elections of August 19th, 2007 saw the absolute victory of the party Nour NATO of the president Noursoultan Nazarbaïev. With 88,05% of the votes, the party Nour NATO raid the totality of the seats in string. None of the six other parties crossed the bar of the 7% required to have members of Parliament for the Lower House, whereas in the preceding legislature the opposition had a seat.

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