--- title: "Who has been elected as the new president of Kazakhstan?" description: "Who has been elected as the new president of Kazakhstan?" author: "Shrikant Mishra" published: 2019-06-17 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62149/who-has-been-elected-as-the-new-president-of-kazakhstan category: "current affair" tags: ["current affair", "president"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Who has been elected as the new president of Kazakhstan? Who has been elected [as the new president](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39290/who-has-been-elected-as-the-new-president-of-sahitya-akademi) of Kazakhstan? ## Answers ### Answer by UTKARSHA SINGHROUL **“Kassym Jomart Tokayev”** after the result declaration with the maximum number of votes has been [elected as](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62212/who-has-been-elected-as-the-first-female-president-of-the-european-commission) the **new and 2nd [President](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51400/who-became-president-after-franklin-roosevelt-died) of Kazakhstan since [Independence](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48834/what-were-subhas-chandra-bose-major-contribution-in-india-s-independence).** ![Who has been elected as the new president of Kazakhstan?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/50477499-6918-43ad-a856-597b6b5a1afa/images/3b62d054-64f5-4a06-8f09-0cf2bd0e0df4.jpeg)\ \ **He over took “Nursultan Nazarbayev**” the longing President for 28 years. Since Independence, Kazakhstan witnessed its second-ever president sworn in. **Tokayev till the age of 66 years served as the career [diplomat](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38395/name-the-fijian-diplomat-who-has-been-elected-as-president-of-71st-session-of-united-nations-general-assembly-unga) as well as has been serving as the Interim President since Nazarbayev resigned in March 2019, and fetch about 70.76 percent of the total [vote](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/325/job-found-and-vote-lost).** **\** **After being the President of Kazakhstan, Tokayev proposed being the new leader**, he announced naming the country's capital as Nursultan in honor of the first president of [Kazakhstan](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38355/name-the-female-athlete-from-odisha-who-broke-the-women-s-100m-national-record-twice-in-a-day-in-women-s-100m-event-and-qualified-for-the-rio-olympics-at-the-xxvi-international-meeting-in-kazakhstan). After that, **the Parliament voted to pass the declaration made by the President and change the name of [Capital](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39732/which-district-of-uttar-pradesh-has-been-included-in-the-national-capital-region-ncr) city.** He even made the commitment to **change the names of the main streets of every major city** and named it after Mr. Nazarbayev and portraits of the post-Soviet-era ruler should continue to hang in [schools](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/75/government-schools-still-waiting-for-students) and other public places. **\** **The first President Mr. Nazarbayev, aged 78 years, has first held the office since April 1991**, whereas, he led Kazakhstan since 1989 when Kazakhstan was still the part of the [Soviet Union](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41653/what-strategy-does-the-united-states-pursue-to-deal-with-the-threat-of-the-soviet-union). The government has spent nearly $18 billion on banking bailouts and trying to balancing relations with the country's two giant neighbors [Russia](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40067/in-which-place-of-russia-the-body-of-lenin-is-embalmed) and [China](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43350/why-did-america-push-for-an-open-door-with-china). However, the political history of Kazakhstan narrates that, there is only one openly opposition candidate in the race of [elections](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/30443/one-nation-one-election) is journalist Amirzhan Kosanov, who has a track record of criticizing the government since a long time. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62149/who-has-been-elected-as-the-new-president-of-kazakhstan Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.