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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• It Ain’t Over Til the Parliament Sings

  Following on news that Nazarbayev vetoed the referendum to extend his term until the year 2020, ITAR-TASS reports that the Speaker of the Mazhilis (the lower house of Kazakhstan’s Parliament) has called for a joint session on the 14th of January. So far there is no word on the agenda of the meeting, however some […]

  1/10/11 • (1)

• 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)

• 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)

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