Kazakh leader submits bill on early elections to parliament
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev introduced a bill to parliament on Tuesday on the holding of early presidential elections.
"Under the bill, the decision to hold early presidential elections is taken by the president and the vote is conducted within two months after the decision is announced," lawmaker Rakhmet Mukashev said.
The date is to be announced by the country`s Central Election Commission, he also said.
Nazarbayev announced on Monday that he wanted to go to the polls in 2011, rather than in 2012.
The move came just after the Kazakh Constitutional Council declared unlawful a proposed referendum bypassing presidential polls due in 2012 and extending Nazarbayev`s presidential term to 2020.
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