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• Polls Are Open

  As the polls open for the snap Presidential election, Reuters has an interesting article surveying opinions in Aksu Ayuly, a village of 2000. Nice to hear what is being said outside of Almaty and Astana where journalists, local and international alike, often don’t bother to tread. Meanwhile, the Central Election Committee promises to have preliminary […]

  4/02/11 • (Comments Off on Polls Are Open)

• Elections on 3 April

  The President has issued a decree setting elections for 3 April 2010, 2 months from now. Elections would have been held in December of 2012, but in a speech on 31 Jan rejecting the referendum, Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed early elections in what is being called a “compromise” between those who feel the referendum to extned […]

  2/04/11 • (1)

• 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 Says No

  The President went on live TV shortly after 5pm today to say that he would not appeal the decision of the Constitutional Council. He spoke from Akorda in front of the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Ministers and other government officials.

  1/31/11 • (Comments Off on President Says No)

• 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)

• State of the Union of Kazakhstan 2011

  Liveblog of the Address to the People of Kazakhstan by the President 2011. Tried to pick up on most of the highlights. Look forward to doing a better summary and analysis when the transcript comes out.

  1/28/11 • (1)

• All Signatures Will Be Destroyed

  An interesting twist on the referendum story. The Central Election Committee issued an order that all signatures will be destroyed, which is to say, All the [petition] papers with the signatures have the status of confidential information and should be kept at the [Central Election Commission] for three months and then should be destroyed in […]

  1/23/11 • (Comments Off on All Signatures Will Be Destroyed)

• 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)

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