Kazakhstan Increases Presidency Tenure To 7 Years, Reverts To Old Capital

September 17, 2022
president of Kazakhstan has on Saturday signed a law which increased the tenure of presidency from five to seven years of one term.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan. Photo credit: Aljazera

The president of Kazakhstan has on Saturday signed a law which increased the tenure of presidency from five to seven years of one term.

He also signed the law to return the country’s capital to the Original name of Astana which was changed to NUR-SULTAN in 2019.

The parliament of Kazakhstan unanimously voted in support of the amendments which passed two readings on Friday.

The change of name of the capital was previously done in honor of the formal president, Nursultan Nazarbayev who stepped down after leading the formal Soviet Union country for almost three decades, spanning from 1991 to 2019.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev who proposed to change the name of the capital from Astana to Nursultan in 2019 after the 82-year-old leader stepped down, assented to the bill today to return the capital to its original name, Astana, which it got in 1997 after the capital moved from Almaty.

The parliament of the central Asian country also voted to increase presidential term from five years to seven years, and barring any president from running for a second term in office.

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