7th Parliament of Kazakhstan

The Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the 7th convocation (Kazakh: Жетінші шақырылған Қазақстан Республикасы Парламенті, romanized: Jetınşı şaqyrılğan Qazaqstan Respublikasy Parlamentı; Russian: Парламент Республики Казахстан седьмого созыва) was a convocation of the Parliament of Kazakhstan from 2021 to 2023.

The term convened at its first session on 15 January, following the 2021 legislative election to the lower house Mäjilis, previously held on 10 January. A total of 98 deputies of the Mäjilis were elected based on the party-list proportional representation, while the 9 seats were reserved to the members elected by the Assembly of People on 11 January. Nurlan Nigmatulin, the parliamentary leader of the Nur Otan party group, was unanimously elected as the chairman of the Mäjilis while Balaim Kesebaeva and Pavel Kazantsev were elected as deputy chairmen. For the first time, the Mäjilis was responsible for the formation of the government following the 2017 amendment which saw the parliamentary approval of PM Asqar Mamin.

The 7th Kazakh Parliament functioned before being dissolved in January 2023 by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ahead of the 2023 legislative election, making it one of the shortest-lived convocation in Kazakhstan's legislative history.

7th Mäjilis

Leadership

Committees

Members

7th Senate

The legislature of Senate of Kazakhstan the 7th convocation began with the opening of its first session on 15 January 2021 with the senators elected in 2017, 2020 and were appointed by President of Kazakhstan in 2017, 2019, and 2020 continued their terms.

Leadership

Major legislation

• 15 January 2021: Opening session of the 8th Parliament of Kazakhstan; Asqar Mamin approved as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan with 78 votes in favor.
• 15 September 2021: Adoption of the law "On introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on issues of protecting the rights of the child, education, information and informatization".
• 27 October 2021: Adoption of the law on stricter penalties for animal cruelty.
• 11 January 2022: Älihan Smaiylov approved as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan with 89 votes in favor.
• 2 February 2022: Adoption of amendments to the constitutional laws "The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy", "On the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan", and "On the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan", abolishing the lifelong chairmanship of first president Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Security Council and the Assembly of People.
• 4 May 2022: Approved amendments to the Constitution of Kazakhstan.
• 16 September 2022: Approved amendments to the Constitution of Kazakhstan, changing the president's renewable five-year to single seven-year term and renaming the capital of Nur-Sultan back to Astana.
• 13 January 2023: Adoption of the law "On invalidating the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy", with 92 votes in favor.

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