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Kazakh ex-president s daughter returns to politics with parliament run

November 25, 2020 04:15 PM


The eldest daughter of Kazakhstan's historic leader Nursultan Nazarbayev returned to politics Wednesday as she prepared to run for parliament just six months after her shock dismissal from a powerful post in the senate.

Dariga Nazarbayeva, 57, was confirmed as a candidate for the ruling Nur Otan party ahead of elections to the lower house on January 10 at a party conference in the capital Nur-Sultan. 

She was one of 126 candidates on the party list published on Nur Otan's website. 

Nur Otan is expected to win a commanding majority in the vote wherein most of the other parties competing are viewed as proxies. 

Nazarbayeva was removed as senate chair in May by order of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whom Nazarbayev handpicked as his successor last year after nearly three decades as head of state.  

Her dismissal from a post that made her second in line to the presidency according to the constitution fuelled talk of a power struggle and quietened rumours that she might assume the presidency herself someday.

But Tokayev and mentor Nazarbayev appeared together at the party conference on Wednesday where they both delivered speeches. 

Nazarbayeva on Tuesday attended a meeting of the party's political council where both men were present in her first major public appearance since the dismissal.  

Tokayev -- a former foreign minister who was senate chair at the time Nazarbayeva stepped down -- regularly praises his powerful predecessor but has also styled himself as a reformer. 

Oil-producing Kazakhstan has seen its economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic with GDP falling by three percent January–August according to the World Bank. 

The lower house on Tuesday agreed to allow the government to borrow $1.8 billion at low interest from the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in order to stimulate employment and fund treatment of the virus.



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