Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a
decree establishing a Constitutional Commission tasked with developing
proposals for Constitutional reform. Under the decree, the Commission will
serve as a consultative and advisory body under the President. The Commission
comprises more than 120 members, including representatives of the National
Kurultai, members of Parliament, maslikhats (local representative bodies), the
business community, civil society organizations, lawyers, scholars, experts,
and cultural figures. According to the document, the Сommission
will be chaired by Elvira Azimova, Chair of the Constitutional Court of
Kazakhstan. The deputy chairs are State Counsellor Erlan Karin and Aida Balayeva,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Information. Addressing the
fifth session of the National Kurultai in Kyzylorda, President Tokayev noted
that the scope of constitutional changes within the parliamentary reform had
proved significantly broader than initially expected. While the amendments were
originally planned to affect around 40 articles of the Basic Law, it later
became clear that the changes are far more extensive and, as the President emphasized,
comparable in scale to the adoption of a new Constitution.
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