Adilet party names 110 incoming members of Kazakhstan’s Kurultai

The Adilet party has approved a list of 110 candidates who will receive seats in Kazakhstan’s new Kurultai.

The list has been submitted to the Central Election Commission for official registration.

The incoming deputies include 37 women, accounting for 33.6% of the parliamentary group, and 13 young people, or 11.8%. Two members, representing 1.8%, are persons with disabilities.

Representatives of ethnic groups other than Kazakhs will make up 19% of the group, with 21 members. The average age is 46.7.

The new group includes 13 former members of the National Kurultai. Twenty-four have parliamentary experience: 20 previously served in the Mazhilis and four in the Senate. Another 26 have served as members of local representative bodies, known as maslikhats.

Ten incoming deputies are members of the Presidential Youth Personnel Reserve, four sit on the Presidential Council on Youth Policy, and five are members of the National Commission for Women’s Affairs and Family and Demographic Policy.

The parliamentary group will also include three environmental specialists, two representatives of the volunteer movement and four IT professionals.

The candidates allocated parliamentary seats are:

Members of the party bureau also approved regulations governing the Adilet parliamentary group in the Kurultai.

Kazakhstan held its first election to the new unicameral parliament on 23 August. A total of 545 candidates from seven political parties contested 145 seats. The deputies will serve five-year terms.

Adilet received 71.17% of the vote, winning the support of more than 6.5 million people.

Four other parties - Auyl, Respublica, the Nationwide Social Democratic Party and Ak Zhol - named their incoming Kurultai deputies a day earlier.