President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokaev has signed constitutional amendments. The President will have only one 7-year term since now on. Nur-Sultan will be renamed as Astana, APA reports citing AKIPress.
Before, the President of Kazakhstan could be elected for a 5-year term, but could seat two terms. Nursultan Nazarbaev remained in president's office from 1991 to 2019. At the suggestion of President Tokaev, snap presidential elections will be held this autumn.
Tokaev suggested renaming Nur-Sultan as Astana in spring 2019. The move was met with protests. The idea of capital renaming was raised again after violent protests in Kazakhstan in January 2022, when citizens of Kazakhstan collected signtures in support of capital renaming.
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