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By Gunay Hasanova

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva was elected the chairman of Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Security

On September 16, members of the Senate, the upper chamber of Kazakhstan’s Parliament, voted to appoint Nazarbayeva as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Defense and Security, RIA Novosti reported on September 16.

Dariga Nazarbayeva earlier served as vice prime minister in the former government.

She returned to parliament in 2012, was its deputy Speaker and is an accomplished opera singer who has performed at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.

A new government was formed in Kazakhstan this week after the resignation of the country’s prime minister.

Dariga Nazarbayeva, daughter of the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and a member of the Kazakh Senate refuted the rumors that she is going to succeed her father as the president, calling them speculations, RIA Novosti reports.

“I see myself as a person who truly and faithfully serves to the motherland, and as a member of our president’s team. This entire guessing is just a speculation,” Nazarbayeva told reporters.

Kazakhstan is a presidential republic. The President of Kazakhstan is Nursultan Nazarbayev. Executive power is exercised by the government and legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of Parliament.

Currently, Kazakhstan is ranking on the 50th place in terms of Government Efficiency Index. The efficiency Index includes expenditures, workload regulations, and political transparency. It beats a number of European countries in government efficiency.
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