Judicial branch of power

Legislative branch of power

Executive branch of power

The main branches of Kazakh government system

The judicial branch of power

The legislative branch of power

The executive branch of power

The Head of state. The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The main branches of Kazakh law system

UNIT 4. THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасының Үкіметі) oversees a presidential republic. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament. There are three branches of power:

1. Executive branch of power

2. Legislative branch of power

3. Judicial branch of power

The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Council of Ministers and serves as Kazakhstan's head of government. There are three deputy prime ministers and 17 ministers in the Council.

The legislature, known as the Parliament (Parliament), has two chambers. The Assembly (Mazhilis) has 77 seats, elected for a four-year term, 67 in single seat constituencies and 10 by proportional representation. The Senate has 47 members, 40 of whom are elected for six-year terms in double-seat constituencies by the local assemblies, half renewed every two years, and 7 presidential appointees. In addition, ex-presidents are ex-officio senators for life. Mazhilis deputies and the government both have the right of legislative initiative, though most legislation considered by the Parliament is proposed by the government.

There are 44 judges on the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan. There are seven members of the Constitutional Council. Judicial system is one of the main constituents of the state, one of the key factors of the democratic development of the country on the way of social, economic, and political modernization. The guarantee of the state mechanism democratization is the principle of power branches division and their interaction.

Since January 2010 the judicial system has been working in a new format. With the introduction of the cassational instance the supervisory authority was abolished in oblast courts. The appeals instance was abolished in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan and now the Supreme Court is the superior judicial organ supervising subordinate courts. The given changes of the legislation were realized for the purpose of the elimination of the multistage system of justice, simplification and faster consideration of legal cases.

The judicial power became the reality in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It has the right to control not only the conformity of the actions.

The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be the head of state, its highest official determining the main directions of the domestic and foreign policy of the state and representing Kazakhstan within the country and in international relations. The President of the Republic shall be the symbol and guarantor of the unity of the people and the state power, inviolability of the Constitution, rights and freedoms of an individual and citizen.

The President of the Republic shall ensure by his arbitration concerted

functioning of all branches of state power and responsibility of the institutions of power before the people.

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