Ashat Rahymjanov | |
Native Name: | Асхат Рахымжанов |
Native Name Lang: | kk |
Office: | Chairman of Nationwide Social Democratic Party |
Term Start: | 6 September 2019 |
Predecessor: | Ermurat Bapi |
Birth Date: | 10 June 1983 |
Birth Place: | Tselinograd, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Kazakh |
Party: | JSDP |
Residence: | Astana |
Alma Mater: | L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University |
Ashat Nurmagambetuly Raqymjanov (Ashat Nūrmağambetūly Raqymjanov, in Kazakh pronounced as /ɑsχat no̙ɾmaɣambʲeto̙ɫə ɾɑqəmʐɑnəf/; born 10 June 1983) is a Kazakh politician who's serving as the chairman of Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP) since 6 September 2019. Prior to that, he was chairman of the Astana City Branch of the JSDP.
Rahymjanov was born in 1983 in Tselinograd, Kazakh SSR.[1] In 2005, he graduated from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana with a degree in political science.[2] Rahymjanov was the deputy chairman of the Astana City Branch of the Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP) where he eventually became the chairman of the branch.
On 6 September 2019, at the 15th Extraordinary Congress of the JSDP, Rahymjanov was elected as the chairman of the party by its delegates, assuming his predecessor Ermurat Bapi's role to which later he criticized the move as being "illegal".[3] [4] [5]