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• Referendum and ElBasi Amendments Sent to Constitutional Council

  There’s actually an excellent article on Central Asian News Wire that sums up the whole history of the referendum movement, including the latest move. Rather than sign the bill from Parliament to approve amendments to the Constitution, Nazarbayev has sent them to the Constitutional Council. The role of the Council is to judge whether proposed […]

  1/18/11 • (1)

• Elbasi Status Will Be Constitutional

  Slightly ignored in the fuss over the referendum, yesterday’s vote in a joint session of Parliament also approved an amendment to enshrine Nazarbayev’s status as Leader of the Nation [RUS]. Parliamentarian Rakhmet Mukashev said, interestingly enough, that the term Elbasi (Leader of the Nation) already exists in the Kazakh text of the Constitution. Earlier last […]

  1/15/11 • (Comments Off on Elbasi Status Will Be Constitutional)

• Parliament Passes Amendment

  Today in a joint session, the Parliament of Kazakhstan unanimously approved a motion to amend the Constitution in order to extend the term of Nazarbayev until the year 2020, overcoming the President’s earlier veto. The head of the Central Election Committee, Kuandyk Turgankulov, who approved the referendum from the people of Kazakhstan was in Parliament […]

  1/14/11 • (2)

• The Big Day

  Today there will be a joint session of both houses of Parliament and the referendum to extend Nazarbayev’s term until 2020 is on the agenda. The Central Election Committee in a record 3 days checked all 5 million signatures and found only 194,000 were invalid. They have sent the petition on to the President. The […]

  1/14/11 • (Comments Off on The Big Day)

• Nazarbayev Turns Down Referendum

  Kazakhstan Today is reporting that Nazarbayev has rejected the referendum on extending his presidential term to 2020. He issued a decree today: “On the rejection of the proposals of the Parliament of Kazakhstan for an all-nation referendum amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” in which he official rejected the Parliament’s proposal for […]

  1/07/11 • (1)

• 4 Million Signatures Planned

  Another update on the referendum to extend Nazarbayev’s term until 2010 On Dec 31, it was reported that the initiative group had collected 300,000 signatures. Yesterday they announced that they had over 3 million signatures and planned to have 4 million by 11 Jan, when the period of collecting signatures ends. Meanwhile, a group of […]

  1/07/11 • (Comments Off on 4 Million Signatures Planned)

• People’s Referendum

  Hope everyone had a nice New Year’s. Following up on the referendum to allow Nazarbayev to remain in power until 2020, which requires 200 000 signatures to be approved, one group in Almaty reports that they already have 300,000 signatures in support of the referendum. However they will continue to collect signatures until 11 Jan […]

  1/05/11 • (1)

• President For Life, Or At Least Until 2020

  As has been widely reported, a movement to keep Nazarbayev as President until 2020 is underway. The “Initiative Group For Conducting a National Referendum to Extend the Powers of the First President of Kazakhstan” met on December 23 Ust-Kamenogorsk and called for a referendum that would extend Nazarbayev’s term until 2020, in other words giving […]

  12/27/10 • (2)

• The President’s Speech at Nazarbayev University

  Besides the appeal to scientists to to stop the effects of aging, which made world news, Nazarbayev did have other things to say in his speech to students at Nazarbayev University last week. Kazakhnomad has some of her notes up and it’s worth going through. I think the admissions that Kazakhstan is behind in the […]

  12/21/10 • (2)

• CBS Stole the Best Headline: Kazakhstan’s President-For-Life Asks for More Life

  For the third time this year, President Nazarbayev has called for scientists in Kazakhstan to study how to reverse aging, leading many to speculate that he is musing over his own mortality. Of course, it isn’t completely fair to call Nazarbayev President-for-Life. In fact, he has the right to run for President as many times […]

  12/09/10 • (5)

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