Kazakhstan began to collect signatures for the removal of inviolability from the first president of the Republic of Nursultan Nazarbayev. The corresponding petition appeared on the website egov.press.
According to the law “On First President”, adopted in 2000, Nazarbayev and his family are guaranteed complete inviolability, it is celebrated in the petition. The first head of state and his family are under the lifeguard, they cannot be delayed, arrest, deprive money and property. In addition, Nazarbayev receives a pension in the amount of 80 percent of the monthly salary of the president, and all who live with him is paid by the benefit. The author of the petition requires to deprive the ex-president of all these privileges.
“We believe that these privileges are unacceptable in a free democratic society, to which the new Kazakhstan, in addition, cause big doubts of the sources of income of the family and other relatives of the first president,” says the text of the petition.
At the time of writing news, the petition has signed more than 3,000 people.
On Tuesday, January 18, the ex-president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev made a statement for the first time since the beginning of the year and mass protests in the country. At the beginning of the appeal, he stated that since 2019 is a pensioner.
Earlier, a petition appeared on the Internet demanding to rename the capital of Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan back to Astana. The authors also offer to rename the streets, named after Nazarbayev, in other cities of the country.