ASTANA – Kazakhstan will hold early elections for local representative bodies, known as maslikhats, on Nov. 29, the Central Election Commission announced at an Oct. 13 meeting.
The elections will fill 3,447 seats across 228 maslikhats at the regional, city and district levels, Deputy Chair of the Central Election Commission Mukhtar Yerman said. Of the total seats, 668 will be in regional maslikhats, 626 in city maslikhats and 2,053 in district maslikhats.
The commission presented a draft resolution setting the election date for Nov. 29. Under Article 101, paragraph 3, of Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Law on Elections, early elections must be called by the Central Election Commission no later than two months after the early termination of a maslikhat’s powers.
Maslikhats are elected by residents of their respective administrative and territorial units through universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot. Deputies serve five-year terms.
Earlier, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of maslikhats at all levels.