Fired Defense Minister of Defense Murat Bektanov did not show commander’s qualities. This was stated by the President of the Republic of Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, reports RIA Novosti.
“We could not take advantage of the potential of the army in a critical situation and were forced to resort to help from the outside,” he explained.
Earlier it was reported that Tokayev appointed a new defense minister, they became the 55-year-old former head of the National Guard of the Republic Ruslan Zhaksylkov. The previous head of the Bectanov Military Office, who had previously retained the post during the permutations in the government, was released. The National Guard of Kazakhstan Instead Zhaksylykov, headed his first deputy.
New appointments in the power unit were separate decrees – this part of the ministerial composition actually remained untouched during the government’s change on January 11.
Tokayev announced changes in senior posts after the start of protests in the south and west of Kazakhstan. Despite the fact that the President sent the government in resigning in the first days of the events of the events, it did not reassure the protesters. On the night of January 5, protest in Alma-Ata abrasion in collision with the police. The situation was managed to normalize only by January 7.