Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev resigned Tuesday from the ruling Amanat party, formerly known as Nur Otan, and stepped down as party chairman.
“As of today I resign from the party and step down as chairman,” the leader said at the opening of Amanat’s 23rd extraordinary congress, during which he proposed as his replacement the chairman of the Mazhilis, Kazakhstan’s lower house of parliament, Yerlan Koshanov.
Tokayev said then that the head of state’s role is to ensure that all branches of power are accountable to the people, considering that the president should “distance himself” from the party, a status, he said, that should be enshrined in the constitution.
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