Kazakh Foreign Minister and Central Election Commission Chairman Brief Diplomatic Corps on Preparations for Presidential Election

ASTANA – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Overseas Affairs Mukhtar Tileuberdi and Chairman of the Central Election Fee (CEC) Nurlan Abdirov offered a report on the preparation and conduct of the Nov. 20 presidential elections in Kazakhstan to the heads of diplomatic missions and representatives of worldwide organizations at a briefing on Nov. 15 in Astana.

Kazakh Overseas Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi and CEC Chairman Nurlan Abdirov in the course of the briefing with diplomatic corps. Photograph credit score: election.gov.kz

Opening the briefing, Tileuberdi described the upcoming presidential election as “one other main milestone within the growth of democracy.” 

“The election will supply our voters a chance to replicate on three years of President Tokayev’s presidency and to contemplate whether or not the individuals assist the imaginative and prescient of simply and honest Kazakhstan,” he stated. 

“All of the situations have been ensured for a aggressive election,” stated Tileuberdi. “Candidates for the president embody not solely the representatives of political events but additionally representatives of assorted associations that current the pursuits of society.”

He additionally highlighted the truth that two ladies candidates are operating for the presidency this yr. “That is one other essential step in Kazakhstan’s ongoing democratic growth.  Over 30 years, Kazakhstan has been making concrete steps to make sure gender equality and to advertise ladies’s function in enterprise and politics,” stated Tileuberdi.

The Kazakh overseas minister named three distinctive features of the upcoming elections that embody forbidding the president to be a member of any political occasion, the “towards all” choice within the ballots, and an introduction of a single seven-year presidential time period with out the proper to re-election.

Following the minister, Abdirov offered the outcomes of the fee’s preparation for the presidential election.

“The CEC bases its work in strict accordance with the legislation that operates on the ideas of openness and public dialogue. I particularly notice that compliance with the norms of the present laws and legislation enforcement are at all times on the coronary heart of our actions,” stated Abdirov.

Over 11 million residents will be capable to vote within the presidential election at 10,101 polling stations throughout the nation and in 68 polling stations overseas. The CEC members visited all areas and checked the readiness of the territorial electoral fee’s polling stations and all of the required infrastructure, stated Abdirov.

He added that creating the situations for the voting of individuals with disabilities can be a precedence. 

“This difficulty was thought of intimately at one of many conferences of the CEC, because of which directions got to native commissions, specifically, to offer signal interpretation and stencils,” he stated.   

For this presidential election, the CEC accredited 641 observers from worldwide organizations and overseas states, together with the OSCE Workplace for Democratic Establishments and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Commonwealth of Impartial States (CIS), the CIS Interparliamentary Meeting, and the Shanghai Cooperation Group (SCO).

“We place nice significance on the presence of missions of worldwide organizations that participate in observing the early presidential election. This exhibits the curiosity of overseas companions on this occasion,” he stated.

Talking after the briefing, Montaser Abu Zaid, ambassador of the State of Palestine to Kazakhstan, stated that election observations have at all times been carried out in compliance with worldwide requirements, reported Baq information outlet.

“I shall be a global observer for the extraordinary presidential election on Nov. 20. That is the fourth time I’m taking part in political occasion going down in your nation as an observer. In all earlier elections I participated in, the voting was voluntary, with out strain, and in compliance with worldwide requirements,” stated the diplomat.

Ambassador of Spain to Kazakhstan Jorge Urbiola Lopez de Montenegro addressed the introduction of a single seven-year time period on the upcoming elections.  “It’s recognized that making very advanced selections normally requires an extended time frame. I consider that somebody who doesn’t reject such wants and turns to alter is an efficient chief. This determination will result in optimistic modifications,” he informed the journalists.