Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan explained

Post:Chairman
Body:the Kazakh Senate
Incumbent:Mäulen Äşimbaev
Incumbentsince:4 May 2020
Appointer:Senate of Kazakhstan
Termlength:None
Formation:30 January 1996
Inaugural:Omirbek Baigeldi
Website:senate.parlam.kz

The Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan is the head of the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan who is responsible for opening sessions, preside over regular and extraordinary joint meetings.[1] The post was created on 30 January 1996 at the first newly Senate session opening after the 1995 Kazakh constitutional referendum which was held in 30 August 1995 that formed the Senate of Kazakhstan.[2]

List of chairmen

PortraitNameTook officeLeft office
1Omirbek Baigeldi(1939–2024)30 January 199629 November 1999
2Oralbay Abdykarimov(1947–)1 December 199910 March 2004
3Nurtai Abykayev(1947–)10 March 200411 January 2007
4Kassym-Jomart Tokayev(1953–)11 January 200715 April 2011
5Kairat Mami(1955–)15 April 201116 October 2013
6Kassym-Jomart Tokayev(1953–)16 October 201320 March 2019
7Dariga Nazarbayeva(1963–)20 March 20192 May 2020
8Mäulen Äşimbaev(1971–)4 May 2020Present

See also

References

  1. Web site: The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan . live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150706201050/http://www.akorda.kz:80/en/official_documents/constitution . 2015-07-06 . 2020-10-21. akorda.kz.
  2. Web site: History – Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2020-10-22. senate.parlam.kz.