Nur-Sultan Maslikhat deputies supported the renaming of the city back to Astana The day before, the onomastic commission of the republic made the same decision. The initiative was also supported by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Deputies of the Maslikhat of Nur-Sultan (representative authority) supported the initiative to rename the capital back to Astana at public hearings, according to a document published on the website of the capital's akimat (city administration).
Anyone could take part in the hearings . They were held online on the Facebook page of the capital's maslikhat (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist in Russia and banned).
“The renaming concerns only the capital, so the republican central state bodies will be financed from the republican budget from their local budget, and local executive bodies, local enterprises— at the expense of the local budget»,— added the secretary of the capital maslikhat Yerlan Kanalimov. (quote from Tengrinews.kz)
Kanalimov added that this decision is only one of the steps in the renaming procedure. He noted that meetings should be held in the republican onomastic commission, after which the documents will be sent to the government, which will submit a draft decree for signature to the president. We can talk about renaming the capital only after the official release of the decree, Kanalimov stressed.
The meeting of the onomastic commission was held the day before, its members advocated the renaming of the Kazakh capital. The initiative was also supported by the President of the Republic, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, his press secretary Ruslan Zheldibai said.
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On September 2, deputies of the parliamentary group “Zhana Kazakhstan” made a proposal to return the name of Astana to the Kazakh capital. (“New Kazakhstan”) of the Kazakh Mazhilis (lower house of parliament). “We consider it wrong when during the life of a person a city is called by his name, moreover, the people also did not accept the new name of the capital. Therefore, it will be historically fair to return the former name of the capital— Astana»,— stated in their statement.
Astana was renamed Nur-Sultan in honor of the first president of the republic, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in March 2019. A decree to this effect was signed by his successor, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who put forward the proposal. At the same time, the inhabitants of the city continued to be called Astana residents.
The inhabitants of Kazakhstan did not accept the new name— before the renaming, uncoordinated rallies took place, and after that petitions were created with calls to return the city to its former name. In addition, during the protests in January this year, the protesters demanded to remove Nazarbayev from politics.
Against this background, the relatives of the first president lost key positions in the state, commemorative plaques mentioning him began to be removed from institutions. Nazarbayev himself was removed from the life-long chairmanship of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan (ANC) and the Security Council, as well as the title and privileges of the Elbasy & mdash; leader of the nation. In addition, he stopped leading the ruling Nur Otan party. (later changed its name to “Amanat”).
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