 Kazakhstan's parliament voted Friday to allow President Nursultan Nazarbayev to stay in office for an unlimited number of terms. At a joint session of both houses of parliament, an overwhelming number of deputies approved | ... a constitutional amendment, which would waive term limits for Nazarbayev and allow him to stay in power indefinitely... |
a constitutional amendment, which would waive term limits for Nazarbayev and allow him to stay in power indefinitely. The amendment is subject to Nazarbayev's final approval. "Taking into account the first president's historic role as one of the founders of a new, independent Kazakhstan, as well as a need to complete the launched political and economic reforms, the joint (parliamentary) commission adopted this decision," commission chairman Yermet Zhumabayev told deputies. |