During the Congress chaired by President Nursultan Nazarbayev the Nur Otan Party adopted a new election programme, “Kazakhstan-2021: Unity. Stability. Creation,” approved the party list and changed its Political Bureau. The programme is based on the Plan of the Nation of 100 Concrete Steps to implement the five institutional reforms.
In his speech, the President focused on key issues of the country’s development and addressed a number of issues with regard to the new electoral programme.
Nursultan Nazarbayev noted that legislative support was launched last year, five of institutional reforms adopted 59 new laws. Today, all state agencies are actively working on them, there are already concrete results.
“We support our working population through implementation of the Employment Roadmap-2020 Programme. There is no place for unemployment in Kazakhstan. We have all the resources in place to avoid it. On the whole, nearly 400,000 new jobs will be created across the country under the Nurly Zhol programme projects in the upcoming years,” he said.
Nursultan Nazarbayev called the congress a responsible and historic moment, noting the party must make the necessary decisions on its participation in the Mazhilis elections.
“The total volume of the national economy grew 23 times, 28 new economic sectors have been created over the last six years and 890 new productions started operation. Kazakhstan’s companies now produce 400 new types of products and the per capita GDP increased 20 times in 17 years,” he added.
The President said the whole world is observing the execution of the five institutional reforms, which requires the state apparatus to work technologically and effectively.
“A new three-stage selection system in the public service has been introduced and a full transition career model work is provided. New institutions of the authorised state bodies on ethics and anti-corruption monitoring were introduced for the first time,” he added.
The Head of State stressed Kazakhstan is the first nation activating five institutional reforms based on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards, which is the key to success.
“The fifth reform enhances public accountability. Annual public reports of executives have already been introduced. It increases the transparency of government decision-making. Implementation of the new evaluation system of state bodies started. An absolute goal for Kazakhstan is to achieve an international AAA rating. This is the highest level in the language of global business, which means that all financial obligations of Kazakhstan will be carried out in any economic and financial circumstances that will occur,” he said.
Nursultan Nazarbayev pointed out the investment ombudsman is working to protect the rights of foreign investors and a visa-free regime for citizens of 19 countries was introduced. The Astana International Financial Centre will get tax benefits for its members and English law.
“The upcoming elections of deputies must pass openly, honestly and in a competitive struggle,” he said.
The congress was attended by more than 2,000 government officials, heads of national holdings, social activists, professional sportsmen, scientific and cultural figures, representatives of NGOs and youth organisations, as well as foreign diplomats and news media.
At the end of its proceedings, the congress voted to approve the list of 127 candidates to be included on its party list for the March 20 election.
