The Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan decided on Tuesday that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is eligible to run for a new term. For this purpose, the country’s Constitution has been amended.
Until now, the law allowed the Kazakh president to hold a single seven-year term, reports hotnews.ro. Tokaev was elected in 2019, being the designated successor of Nursultan Nazarbaev, the first president of Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The leader from Astana was the one who asked the Constitutional Court about the possibility of running again. The drafting of the new supreme law of the country only took a few weeks, reports realitatea.md.
The new regulations maintain the limit of a single seven-year presidential term, however, a decision by the Constitutional Court has established that terms served under the old Constitution are not taken into account for this limit.
A reform measure was implemented in Russia in the year 2020. As a result, Vladimir Putin was able to run for at least two more presidential terms.