OTS - Akezhan Kazhegeldin calls on President Tokayev to carry out political and economic reforms. / Former Kazakh Prime Minister proposes emergency measures to overcome the current crisis.
2020. August 03. 10:00
Dresden, 3 August, 2020 (APA/OTS) - In Kazakhstan, the proposal of
Akezhan Kazhegeldin, urging to unite some governmental bodies and
give emergency powers to a special commission to combat the
epidemic and the economic crisis, is widely discussed.
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In an open letter to President Tokayev
(https://zagranburo.org), the leader of the democratic opposition
insists that the head of state personally has to lead this
commission.
Kazhegeldin also suggested that former President Nursultan
Nazarbayev should completely resign from all posts in the Security
Council, Senate and the ruling Nur-Otan party. The former President
reserved these posts for himself for life, transferring executive
power to Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev in March 2019. In July of this
year, N. Nazarbayev turned 80 years old.
In Kazakhstan itself, the number of cases of COVID -19
continues to grow. The state of emergency introduced earlier did
not end the epidemic. International experts working with Akezhan
Kazhegeldin say that the number of patients in the country has
reached 300 thousand. Official statistics report on almost 2,000
new cases per day. The situation has deteriorated to such a
tragedy, that the German government publicly listed Kazakhstan as a
prime country of risk. This was said during the weekly press
conference of the German Government on July 27 in Berlin.
China accuses the Kazakh authorities
(https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1195251.shtml) of the hiding
thousands of cases and deaths in its official statistics by calling
them victims of a pneumonia epidemic.
In recent weeks, demonstrations of desperate citizens took
place in Kazakhstan. Citizens cannot receive the necessary
treatment; they even must stand in lines for days to pick up from
overcrowded morgues the bodies of deceased relatives.
The fall in incomes of the population, caused by the long-term
economic crisis and the resumption of quarantine, is causing
massive protests. Citizens are outraged by the insignificance of
the state support for those, who lost their jobs.
Kazhegeldin is sure that the failures in the fight against the
pandemic and the economic crisis are explained by corruption in the
government and state monopolies. He invites Tokayev to open the way
for a new generation of politicians and administrators,
well-educated, with experience of work in international
organizations and corporations.
Former Kazakh Prime Minister Akezhan Kazhegeldin poses a direct
question to the President of Kazakhstan:
"My young colleagues and I are ready to carry out vital reforms
and intend to achieve them - in social life, in the economy, in the
political system. We need a clear answer - we have to move united
into the future or will you remain in the past with Nazarbayev and
his Nur-Otan Party? "
The full text of Akezhan Kazhegeldin's open letter to President
Tokayev.ű
https://zagranburo.org/
Serik Medetbekov
Email: zagranburo@gmail.com
Phone: +49 172 4385022
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