URGENT: Elections in Zhanaozen to be held - CEC
ASTANA. January 11. KAZINFORM /Askar Bimendin/ Today at the evening the Kazakh Central Election Commission has adopted a resolution on holding elections of deputies for the Kazakh Majilis and the maslikhats of the country in Zhanaozen.
"The CEC received the documents from the Constitutional Council that at today's meeting its members failed to override veto of the Kazakh President on the decision to ban parliamentary elections and postpone the election of deputies to Maslikhats in Zhanaozen town. In this connection the Constitutional Council ceased the Constitutional production on the request of the Central Election Commission," CEC Chairman Kuandyk Turgankulov said.
The elections of deputies of the Parliament and maslikhats in Zhanaozen will take place in schedule, January 15.