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79 candidates nominated for Kazakhstan's Senate elections

11 August 2014 15:30 (UTC+04:00)
79 candidates nominated for Kazakhstan's Senate elections

By Aynur Jafarova

Some 79 candidates have been nominated for elections to Kazakhstan's Senate (Upper House of Parliament), Trend Agency reported quoting the Central Election Commission (CEC).

"Some 14 persons have been nominated by Maslikhats (local representative body) and 65 are self-nominated," the CEC said.

Kazakhstan's Senate elections will be held on October 1. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a relevant decree on July 31.

There are 4 women among the nominated candidates. The average age of the candidates is 53 years. The youngest candidate is 37 and the oldest one is 66 years old.

There are 29 engineers among the candidates, 12 economists, 11 teachers, 11 agricultural workers (agronomists, livestock specialists, veterinarians and others), 10 doctors, 4 lawyers, and 2 are representatives of other specialties.

Some 4 of the candidates are acting as Senate deputies, 33 are officials of the state bodies, organizations, enterprises and institutions, 28 of them work in commercial structures and 13 in the fields of science, culture, education and healthcare.

All nominated candidates meet the requirements of Kazakh Constitution and relevant legislation.

Every candidate is required to be supported by at least 10 percent of votes of all Maslikhat deputies for registration. The support should be verified by a collection of corresponding number of signatures of Maslikhat deputies. Each elector can put his/her signature in support of only one candidate.

The signature sheets for collection of the Maslikhat deputies' signatures will be issued for all candidates who have been checked for the compliance with requirements of Kazakh Constitution and legislation. The collection should be organized by the proxies of the candidates.

Each nominee should contribute an election fee worth 300,000 tenge (182 tenge=$1) to the special account of the CEC as a deposit.

A candidate and his/her spouse are obliged to submit declarations on income and property to the tax bodies at the place of his/her residence before registration.

August 31 is the deadline for the nomination.

Registration of candidates will be carried out by regional election commissions and the election commissions of cities of Astana and Almaty until September 11.

There are 47 deputies in Kazakh Senate, 15 of them are appointed directly by the president, and the rest 32 (local representatives) are elected by people through elections. Senators are elected for a six-year term. Every three years, some 16 senators are re-elected. The last election of Kazakh Senate was held in 2011.

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