Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The country's parliament is a legislative body consisting of two chambers:

• Senate (term of office - 6 years, half of the composition is re-elected every 3 years) and
• Majilis (term of office - 5 years).

The Senate includes 50 deputies, 40 of whom are elected by the representative bodies of the regions, 5 are elected by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, another 5 are appointed by the president.

The Mazhilis assumes the presence of 107 simultaneously sitting deputies elected by universal suffrage according to a mixed electoral system: 70% are elected by party lists (the entire territory of the country is one constituency), 30% - by single-member constituencies.

The areas of jurisdiction of the parliament include the following points:

• amending the constitution at the suggestion of the president,
• budget approval,
• the expression of a vote of no confidence by a qualified 2/3 majority,
• passing laws and overcoming the president's veto with the same 2/3 of the votes of members of parliament.

2021: Nur Otan controls 76 seats out of 107

The results of all parliamentary elections, from 2004 to 2021, were not diverse: each election cycle ended with a confident victory for the Nur Otan party led by the leader of the nation, forming an absolute majority.

Three parties are represented in the 2021 parliament:

• Nur Otan, since 2022 Amanat (Kazakh nationalism, social conservatism, secularism, 76 out of 107 seats),
• "Ak Jol" (liberal conservatism, civic nationalism, economic liberalism, 12 seats out of 107),
• "PPK (socialism, 10 seats out of 107)."