Kazakh president Tokayev takes over as ruling party leader
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was on Friday voted chairman of the ruling party, his office said, as he moves to cement control following a bloody national crisis. "By the decision of the extraordinary XXI Party Congress, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart (Tokayev), was unanimously elected Chairman of the Nur Otan Party," his office said on Twitter.
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- Published Date: 12:34 | 28 January 2022
- Modified Date: 12:34 | 28 January 2022
Kazakhstan's ruling Nur Otan party elected President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as its chairman on Friday, his office said in a tweet, finalising the transfer of political power from his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Nazarbayev, who resigned in 2019, had retained sweeping powers until this month as the chairman of the security council and the head of Nur Otan, which dominates parliament. Tokayev took over the security council position at the peak of violent unrest in early January.