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• Transcript of President’s Speech on the Referendum

  Sorry for yesterday’s brief post. I got an important phone call in the middle of the President’s speech on TV about the referendum so I just posted the main piece of news: that he would not appeal the Constitutional Council’s decision. The other big news, which has already hit the domestic and international news services, […]

  2/01/11 • (1)

• President to Announce Decision

  The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan has made a decision regarding the proposed law by Parliament to hold a referendum extending the term of the President until 2020. They have declared the law unconstitutional. The proposed amendments would have also codified the President’s status as Elbasi or “Leader of the Nation” in the Constitution itself. As […]

  1/31/11 • (Comments Off on President to Announce Decision)

• President Waiting for Constitutional Council

  Gazeta.kz has a better summary of the President’s words on the referendum than my liveblogging on the Address. Could be because their Russian is better than mine. In short (via Google Translate) he said: I vetoed the law and sent it to the Constitutional Council, as it was given to me, and they must determine […]

  1/28/11 • (1)

• 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)