{"id":525783,"date":"2026-03-16T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=525783"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:29:21","slug":"new-constitution-of-kazakhstan-supported-by-87-15-in-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/new-constitution-of-kazakhstan-supported-by-87-15-in-referendum","title":{"rendered":"New Constitution of Kazakhstan Supported by 87.15% in Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan has announced preliminary results of the constitutional referendum held on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, voter turnout reached 73.12%. A total of 87.15% of voters who came to polling stations supported the new constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The constitutional changes were initiated by President <b>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev<\/b>. Around 80% of the text of the basic law has been updated. The key changes include a transition to a unicameral parliament \u2014 the Kurultai, the introduction of the position of vice president, the creation of the People\u2019s Council of Kazakhstan, the \u0437\u0430\u043a\u0440\u0435\u043f\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 of the tenge in the constitution, clarification of the status of the Russian language \u2014 from \u201cequal with\u201d to \u201calongside\u201d Kazakh \u2014 and a ban on dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The new constitution is expected to enter into force on July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan has announced preliminary results of the constitutional referendum held on Sunday. According to the commission, voter turnout reached 73.12%. A total of 87.15% of voters who came to polling stations supported the new constitution. The constitutional changes were initiated by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Around 80% of the text of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":525782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b7bf66a2cb6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"New Constitution of Kazakhstan Supported by 87.15% in Referendum"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}