Kazakhstan passes bill to abolish Nazarbayev’s lifelong chairmanship at Security Council

The Mazhilis, the lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, on Wednesday approved amendments that abolish lifelong chairmanship of the country’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in the Security Council and Kazakhstan People’s Assembly, said Snezhanna Imasheva, a Mazhilis deputy.

"These amendments were introduced by deputies," she said, Tengrinews reported. "You know perfectly well that that’s a done deal that the head of the state will head the assembly <…> and the Security Council."

"There’s nothing extraordinary about it to have a discussion," she went on to say.