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Parties and Candidates
PC001
Registration requirements for parties (Chamber 1)
Question: What are the registration requirements for political parties running for national elections (Chamber 1)?
Answer(s):
a . Signature requirement (specify requirement) b . Deposit requirement (specify amount) f . Other
Comments: 1. At their own expense, political parties nominating party lists shall transfer to the account of the Central Election Commission an election contribution equal to fifteen times of the minimum wage set by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for each person on the party list.
2. No election contribution shall be payable by political parties, which have received votes of seven and more percent of all voters at the previous election of the Mazhilis deputies.
3. A political party, which received votes of five to seven percent of all voters at the previous election of the Mazhilis deputies, shall pay an election contribution equal to fifty percent of the amount of the election contribution set in clause 1 of this Constitutional Act.
A political party, thatol received votes three to five percent of all voters at the previous election of the Mazhilis deputies, shall pay an election contribution equal to seventy percent of the amount of the election contribution set in clause 1 of this Constitutional Act.
4. The paid contribution shall be refunded to a political party if it receives votes of at least seven percent of all voters, and in case of death of the only candidate on the party list. In all other cases the contribution paid shall not be refunded and shall proceed to the republican budget.
(Art. 88).
3. Party lists shall be conducted upon submission of the following documents:
1) an extract from the minutes of the supreme body of a political party regarding nomination of the party list together with a copy of the registration certificate of a political party with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic;
2) an application of the citizen with a consent to be included into the party list;
3) biographic data of each person on the party list;
4) certificate of tax body on receipt of an income and property declaration of the candidate and his/her spouse;
5) a document, confirming that the election contribution has been paid by a political party;
6) a document, confirming the membership of a person, included in the party list, in the political party, which has nominated such list.
5. Candidates nominated by the Board of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan shall be registered subject to availability of the following documents:
1) extract from the minutes of the Board of the Assembly regarding the nomination of candidates;
2) an application of the citizen with consent to stand for election as a candidate to deputy;
3) biographic data about each person nominated by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan;
4) certificate of tax body on receipt of an income and property declaration of the candidate nominated by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan and his/her spouse;
(Art. 89).
Source: Constitutional Law on Elections of the Republic of Kazakhstan as amended on June 29, 2018, art. 88, 89: https://www.election.gov.kz/eng/election-legal-framework/the-laws-of-the-rk.php
Verified: 2024/10/20
PC003
Registration requirements for candidates (Chamber 1)
Question: What are the legal qualifications to become a candidate at legislative elections (Chamber 1)?
Answer(s):
a . Age b . Citizenship d . Residence
Comments: 4. A deputy of Parliament may be a person who is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan and who has been a permanent resident for the last ten years on its territory. A deputy of the Mazhilis may be a person who has reached twenty-five years of age.
Source: Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan as amended on March 10, 2017, art. 51: https://www.election.gov.kz/eng/election-legal-framework/the-constitution-of-the-rk.php
Verified: 2024/10/21
PC008
Independent candidates
Question: Can independent candidates compete in presidential or legislative elections?
Answer(s):
b . In presidential elections c . In legislative elections (Chamber 1) d . In legislative elections (Chamber 2) e . In both presidential and legislative elections
Comments: 1. The right to nominate candidates for the Presidency belongs to republican public associations registered in the prescribed manner.
3. Candidates to President shall be nominated by the republican public associations on behalf of their supreme bodies. A public association shall be eligible to nominate the candidates who are not members of the given public association.
(Constitutional Law on Elections, Art. 55).
2. Nomination of candidates to the Senate deputies shall be conducted:
1) at the sessions of the oblast (the cities of the Republican status and the capital), city and district maslikhats. The political parties, other public associations through their representatives in maslikhats shall nominate candidatures to Senate deputies of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In this case several maslikhats shall nominate one candidate;
2) by self-nomination.
5. Self-nomination of candidates to the Senate deputies shall be carried out by the citizens through submission to the corresponding territorial election commission of an application expressing an intention of the candidate to stand for elections of the Senate deputies from the given administrative-territorial unit.
(Constitutional Law on Elections, Art. 71).
1. The right to nominate candidates to the Mazhilis deputies on the basis of the party lists shall belong to political parties registered in accordance with the set procedures, while the right to nominate candidates to the Mazhilis deputies to be elected by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan shall belong to the Board of Assembly.
(Constitutional Law on Elections, Art. 87,1). -> Only the Mazhilis deputies that are elected by the Assembly of the People can be independent.
Source: Constitutional Law on Elections of the Republic of Kazakhstan as amended on June 29, 2018, art. 55, 71, 87: https://www.election.gov.kz/eng/election-legal-framework/the-laws-of-the-rk.php
Verified: 2024/10/23
PC012
Public funding of parties
Question: Do political parties receive direct/indirect public funding?
Answer(s):
b . Direct c . Indirect
Comments: 1. At the end of last elections budget funds shall be annually allocated to a political parties, represented in the Mazhilis of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. A size of budget funds allocated to the financing of activity of a political parties, shall be determined in the Law on the republican budget.
3. The procedure of financing political parties shall be determined by the Central election commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
4. The control for expenditure of budget funds shall be carried out in the procedure established by the budget legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
(Art. 18-1, The Law on Political Parties of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
3. The state guarantees candidates equal allocation of funds for their programs in the media. The procedure and the amount of funds allocated to the candidates for media appearances are determined by the Central Election Commission.
(Art. 28. The Constitutional Law on Elections of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
Budget funds are annually allocated to political parties represented in the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of the results of the last elections. The size of the budget allocated for the financing of the activity of political parties is determined by the law on the republican budget. The procedure for financing political parties is determined by the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The state shall guarantee an equal allocation of funds to the candidates to come out with their programs in mass media. Each candidate shall be granted with funds for a fifteen minutes speech on TV, ten-minutes broadcasting by the radio as well as for publication of two articles in the press in the volume that does not exceed 0.1 of a printed sheet.
The political parties that have nominated their party lists shall be eligible to participate in the political debates on TV, organized by the Central Election Commission within the time limit fixed by the Central Election Commission.
Mass media shall provide time for broadcasting and the printed space to the registered candidates and political parties that have nominated their party lists on a contractual basis.
For publication of posters, leaflets, slogans and other printed campaign materials the corresponding election commissions shall allocate to the candidates an equal sum of money, except for the candidates who stand for elections under party lists.
Source: The Law on Political Parties of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as amended in May 2021, art. 18-1
http://adilet.zan.kz/eng/archive/docs/Z020000344_/07.11.2014
The Constitutional Law on Elections of the Republic of Kazakhstan as amended on June 29, 2018, art. 28: https://www.election.gov.kz/eng/election-legal-framework/the-laws-of-the-rk.php
Verified: 2024/10/23
PC015
Question: What is the basis of the public funding?
Answer(s):
b . Based on result of previous election e . Other
Comments: Art. 18-1.
1. Budget funds are annually allocated to political parties represented in the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of the results of the last elections.
2. A size of budget funds allocated to the financing of activity of a political parties, shall be determined in the Law on the republican budget.
3. The procedure of financing political parties shall be determined by the Central election commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
4. The control for expenditure of budget funds shall be carried out in the procedure established by the budget legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Source: The Law on Political Parties of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as amended on May 2021, art. 18-1: http://adilet.zan.kz/eng/docs/Z020000344_
Verified: 2024/10/23
PC017
Question: Are political parties entitled to private funding?
Answer:
a . Yes
Comments: 1. Pre-election campaigns of candidates at elections of the President and deputies of the Parliament as well as deputies of maslikhats can be funded from the election funds formed in compliance with the procedure established by this Constitutional Act.
3. The election funds shall be formed from the following sources:
1) personal means of candidates, funds of political parties;
2) means allocated to the candidate by the republican public association that has nominated the candidate;
3) voluntary donations of citizens and organizations of the Republic. The voluntary donations of the state bodies and organizations, local self-government bodies, charitable organizations, religious associations, legal entities of Kazakhstan having foreign stock in their charter capital as well as anonymous donations of physical persons and legal entities shall be forbidden.
(Art. 34, The Constitutional Law on Elections of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
1. Means of a political party shall be formed from:
1) entrance and membership fees;
2) charitable gifts of citizens and non – state organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, carried out in the procedure, established by the central executive body, provided the tax control over the fulfillment of tax obligations before the state, upon condition that these charitable gifts shall be documented and appointed its sources;
3) entrepreneurial incomes;
4) treasure funds;
(Art 18. The Law on Political Parties of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
Source: The Constitutional Law on Elections of the Republic of Kazakhstan as amended on June 29, 2018, art. 34: https://www.election.gov.kz/eng/election-legal-framework/the-laws-of-the-rk.php
The Law on Political Parties of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as amended in May 2021, art. 18.
http://adilet.zan.kz/eng/archive/docs/Z020000344_/07.11.2014
Verified: 2024/10/23
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