Election Season in Kazakhstan to Сoncentrate on Social Obligations, Say Experts

ASTANA – Because the election marketing campaign interval continues in Kazakhstan till Nov. 18, its focus is totally on social obligations, mentioned political skilled Daniyar Ashimbayev. 

Roughly 12 million individuals are eligible to vote within the Nov. 20 presidential elections. Picture credit score: semeynews.kz

“Apparently, there’s a sure set of explicitly populist slogans that the electoral headquarters have agreed to not carry up for discussions, similar to credit score amnesty and the privatization of rental housing. Contemplating the rising variety of faux information on these subjects in social networks, it’s apparent that the subject is painful,” mentioned the skilled.  

“Enormous efforts made in earlier years to diversify and develop the economic system have had no impact within the type of sustainable enterprises with everlasting employment and secure revenue,” he mentioned, highlighting that this additionally contributed to the vital dependence of the buyer market on imports, a problem that has been repeatedly raised by the nation’s management. 

Ashimbayev famous that since January the course bends in direction of the excellent demonopolization of political and financial energy within the nation. Insurance policies are shifting within the transition to extra sufficient financial planning, forcing the oligarchy to cease exporting capital to investing within the nationwide economic system, safety of the economic system from worldwide sanctions, and the elevated involvement of international traders in home initiatives.

Andrei Chebotarev, director on the Alternativa Middle for Present Analysis, mentioned that the presidential candidates should persuade voters not simply to vote for any considered one of them, however to take part in these elections at a minimal. 

“Political opposition of Kazakhstan has as soon as once more missed the strategic alternative by refusing to take part within the presidential election by nominating and supporting its candidate,” he wrote in a social media publish. 

Skilled Zhanna Tulindinova mentioned that the truth that the upcoming elections have two feminine candidates – Saltanat Tursynbekova and Karakat Abden – is a transparent signal of elevated ladies’s empowerment in Kazakhstan. She additionally famous that the general public area is changing into extra open for dialogue of essentially the most acute points pertaining to feminine empowerment. 

“The household and ladies’s points, which had been beforehand hidden behind closed doorways, at the moment are mentioned brazenly as severe socially important points, and never one thing embarrassing that the households ought to cope with in their very own manner. These issues embrace home violence, varied types of financial and social coercion of ladies, youngster poverty and poverty in households with many kids,” she mentioned.

Addressing these points might be more practical with extra ladies having their voice heard within the decision-making course of. 

Political scientist Jabrail Markhiev mentioned that he assumes the upcoming elections might be held pretty and brazenly. 

“It’s truthful to imagine that the upcoming elections might be held as brazenly as potential, as a result of in any other case Tokayev’s reformism, which was extremely praised by the worldwide organizations and their representatives, might be discredited. I’m certain that there could also be each optimistic and unfavorable phenomena, which might be detected through the elections, corrected and consolidated by the point of parliamentary elections [in the first half of 2023]. And the actual fact of the start of a brand new political period is simple and inspiring,” he mentioned.