Kazakhstan

Population Statistics

18,157,122

Total Population

2,723,568

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

21 April 2015

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


On Elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 1999)

Updated: June 2015

Article 4 states:

(3) The citizens, who have been recognized by a court as legally incapable, including those who kept in places of confinement under the court’s sentence, shall not take part in elections...

 

Excerpt from the Constitutional Act on Elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 1999)

Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 2011)

Updated: June 2015

Article 33, section 3 states:

The right to elect and be elected, to participate in the all-nation referendum shall not extend to the citizens judged incapable by a court as well as those held in places of confinement on a court’s sentence.

 

Article 47, section 1 states:

The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan may be prematurely released from office in the case of continued incapacity to perform his duties due to illness. In this case the Parliament shall form a commission consisting of equal numbers of deputies from each Chamber and specialists of the respective areas of medicine. The decision of premature release based on the conclusion of the commission and that of the Constitutional Council confirming observance of the established constitutional procedures shall be adopted at a joint sitting of the Parliament’s Chambers by the majority of no less than three-fourths from the total number of deputies of each Chamber.

 

Article 52, section 5 states:

The powers of the deputies of Parliament shall be terminated in cases of resignation, his death, being recognized of the deputy on the judgment which has entered validity incapacitated, died or is unknown absent and others provided by the Constitution and the constitutional law cases...

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 2011)