The President of Kazakhstan, Kasim Khomart Tokayev, has dissolved the country’s Parliament on Thursday, after which he has called early elections for March 19 and has left the organization of the elections in the hands of the Central Electoral Commission.
Tokayev has thus signed a decree that includes the dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament in accordance with Article 44 of the Kazakh Constitution, according to information from the Kazinform news agency.
Thus, he pointed out that the governors and mayors of all the regions and localities of the country «have the responsibility to implement all the necessary measures to guarantee the holding of the elections».
«In accordance with the Constitution, I have signed the corresponding decrees to put an end to the power of the deputies after holding talks with the presidents of the two Chambers of Parliament and the Prime Minister,» the head of state said in a statement.
He also thanked the deputies for their «productive and active work» and stressed that «they have been the epicenter of a series of large-scale reforms». In this sense, he expressed his wish that the new deputies «continue their work in the same way to modernize the country».
The possibility of holding early elections was proposed in September by Tokayev himself during an address to the nation in which he pointed out that «there was a logical need to hold them after the citizens supported a constitutional reform in a referendum».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
