A delegation of the State Duma will take part in monitoring the preparation and conduct of a referendum on June 5 on amendments to the constitution of Kazakhstan. This follows from the minutes of the Duma Council meeting, the text of the document is available to TASS.
"The decision to send a delegation of the State Duma to the Republic of Kazakhstan to participate in monitoring of the preparation and holding of the referendum on amendments to the constitution of the republic has been taken," the document says.
The delegation will be headed by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education Sergey Kabyshev ("A Just Russia — For Truth"). Chairwoman of the Committee for Regional Politics and Local Self-Government Sardana Avksentyeva ("New People") and deputy chair of the Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Artem Turov ("United Russia") will also observe the referendum process. They will observe the referendum through the CIS Mission.
Kazbek Taisaev (CPRF), First Deputy Chair of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots will be an observer. The delegation will also include Stanislav Naumov (LDPR), deputy chairman of the committee on economic policy, who will be an observer for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
On April 29 President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the session of the Assembly of the Nation proposed to hold the referendum on amendments to the Constitution. The amendments reduce the powers of the head of state, significantly strengthen the role of parliament and local representative bodies, systematically strengthen the human rights sector, reconstitute the Constitutional Court, fix the final abolition of the death penalty and exclude provisions on the status of the country's first leader Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Based on materials from TASS