The capital of Kazakhstan will be called Astana again in the future. In addition, the president of the Central Asian country can only be elected once for seven years. This was decided by parliament on Friday.
The members unanimously passed a constitutional amendment, with the corresponding law yet to be signed by the head of state Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. This is considered only a formality, as the 69-year-old head of state has already spoken out in favor of returning to the capital’s old name.
Since March 2019, it has been named Nur-Sultan in honor of the then-resigned President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was in power for nearly three decades. More than a million people live in the metropolis in the north of the country. Nazarbayev had the city built with futuristic buildings modeled on the Gulf States. In 1998 she was baptized in Astana, Kazakh for capital. In Soviet times, the resource-rich center of power of the republic was still in Almaty (Alma-Ata), the most populous city in Kazakhstan.
bloody protests
Bloody protests earlier this year preceded the current trial. This led, among other things, to a split with Nazarbayev, who had been given sweeping powers after his resignation and whose family controlled the country’s fortunes.
Source: Krone
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