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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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Until now, the law allowed the Kazakh president to hold a single seven-year term, reports hotnews.ro<\/a>. Tokaev was elected in 2019, being the designated successor of Nursultan Nazarbaev, the first president of Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":115157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[18104,18101,14962,18103,18102],"class_list":["post-116563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-foreign-affairs-en","tag-constitution-amendment","tag-constitutional-court-2","tag-little","tag-reset-2","tag-tokaev"],"yoast_head":"\nTokaev follows in Putin's footsteps. 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